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The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.

Denis Diderot

The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
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
Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.
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Authority Break Goodness Oneself Privacy
Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.
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Animal Guide Instinct Intelligence Reason
Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
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Bad Confusion Different Follow Reveal Truth
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
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Happiness Oneself Passion
Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
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Anand Thakur
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
DENIS DIDEROT

Poetry Vast Wild
Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
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Destroy Doctor Preserve Success Work
Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
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Beg Compassionate Man Poor Possible Shame
The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Destroy Man Pronounce
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
There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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Anand Thakur
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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Anand Thakur
The wisest among us is very lucky never to have met the woman, be she beautiful or ugly, intelligent or stupid, who could drive him crazy enough to be fit to be put into an asylum.
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Beautiful Crazy Drive Enough Wisdom Woman

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