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If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.

Denis Diderot

Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope
Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.
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Animal Guide Instinct Intelligence Reason
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
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
For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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Myself Prostitute Thinking
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Oneself Path Step
It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.
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Love Rob
To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.
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Definition Himself Man Strength Weakness
The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
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Anand Thakur
The world is the house of the strong.
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Hard Time Inspirational Strong World
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
The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
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Divorce Improvement Marriage Partner Population Possible
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
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
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

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