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There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.

Denis Diderot

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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Command Force Obedience Power Violence
There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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Happiness Oneself Responsibility
You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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Anand Thakur
There are cats and cats.
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Cat One Liner
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Philosophy Religion Separate
It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
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Desire Fact Production True Willing
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
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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Heart Known Wisdom
To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.
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Butterfly Color Pen Wings Woman
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Oneself Path Step
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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Anand Thakur
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Evil Genius World
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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Abstract Relationship Sign Study
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Atheist God Injurious
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Gentle Himself Man Nature
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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Machine Order Ordinary Quality

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