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The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.

Denis Diderot

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
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Bad Country Goodness Government Moral
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Step Truth
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
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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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
I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.
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Anand Thakur
Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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Admire Distance Greatness Promote
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge, observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
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Combination Experiment Knowledge Principle Reflection Result
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
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
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
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
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope
We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
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Bitter Lying Swallow Truth
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Gentle Himself Man Nature

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