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If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.

Denis Diderot

Only the bad man is alone.
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Alone Bad Man
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path
The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
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Anand Thakur
There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.
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Death Fear Happiness Justice Virtue
If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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Beautiful Color Disturb Rainbow
One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.
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Demand Finding Oneself Seek Truth
Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one’s fatherland, which is perishable?
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Enlightenment Father Greatness Oneself Perish Save
The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre
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Anand Thakur
We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
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Feeling Instrument Memories Object Surround
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.
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Belief Law Myself Nation People Thinking
It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
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Believe God Important
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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Anand Thakur
If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.
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Anand Thakur
What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.
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Impartial Path Step Truth

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