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You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.

Denis Diderot

A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it. Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Evidence Question Truth
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Atheist God Injurious
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
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Children Education Entertainment Man Preference
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
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man’s afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
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Himself Passion Pleasure Source
Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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Anand Thakur
Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.
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Greatness Mindset Moral Passion Raise Small Soul
The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
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Action Allow Freedom Genius Interest Place
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Destroy Passion Philosophy Prejudice
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
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Arouse Patriot Society
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
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
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Step Truth
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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Heart Known Wisdom

You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.

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