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Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.

Denis Diderot

If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the “enthusiasm for truth and justice” using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.
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Dedication Enthusiasm Goodness Life Sense
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: ‘My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.’ This stranger is a theologian.
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Finding Forest Night Order Stranger Wander Yourself
What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.
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Comedy Oneself Play World
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
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See Theory World
There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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Happiness Oneself Responsibility
I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.
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Feeling Judgement Thinking
When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
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Allow Music Painting Performance Poetry Superstitious
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Destroy Passion Philosophy Prejudice
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope
In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.
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Anand Thakur
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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Anand Thakur
The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
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Children Father God Himself

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.

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