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

Denis Diderot

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
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
Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: ‘My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.’ This stranger is a theologian.
DENIS DIDEROT

Finding Forest Night Order Stranger Wander Yourself
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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Philosophy Road
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
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
Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
DENIS DIDEROT

Bad Confusion Different Follow Reveal Truth
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
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
DENIS DIDEROT

Blood God Myself Sin
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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Anand Thakur
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
DENIS DIDEROT

Step Truth
Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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Admire Distance Greatness Promote
One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.
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Demand Finding Oneself Seek Truth
Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.
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Fine Himself Live Man Peace Possession Purity Religious
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
Isn’t it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
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Better Chance Goodness Man

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