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The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.

Denis Diderot

If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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Beautiful Color Disturb Rainbow
At an early age I sucked up the milk of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato and Euripides, diluted with that of Moses and the prophets.
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Age Early Milk Myself
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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Machine Order Ordinary Quality
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Evidence Integrity Virtue
My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.
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Blow Clear Finding Friendship Way
In order to get as much fame as one’s father one has to much more able than he.
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Fame Father Himself Order
I discuss with myself questions of politics, love, taste, or philosophy. I let my mind rove wantonly, give it free rein to followany idea, wise or mad that may present itself. My ideas are my harlots.
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Discussion Love Mad Mindset Myself Politics Present Taste
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Atheist God Injurious
How easy it is to tell tales!
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Easy Story
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
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Creative Experiment Genius Nature Observation
Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.
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Build Distance Infinite Mad Plain Separate Tower
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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Heart Known Wisdom
The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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Best Doctor Finding Oneself Run
If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.
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Anand Thakur
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

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