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There is only one duty; that is to be happy.

Denis Diderot

And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Gentle Himself Man Nature
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
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
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Arouse Patriot Society
My ideas are my whores.
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Ideas One Liner Whore
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
The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Destroy Man Pronounce
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception
Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
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Design Disturb Trouble True
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Expectation Finding Myself Truth
Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.
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Book Greatness Literature Poet Taste
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
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Command Justice Obedience Virtue
There are things I can’t force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
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Adjust Change Force Need Point View
Only the bad man is alone.
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Alone Bad Man
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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Blood God Myself Sin

There is only one duty; that is to be happy.

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