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I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.

Denis Diderot

Every man has his dignity. I’m willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
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Dignity Man Myself Willing
The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.
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Creation Dangerous Mad Man Occasion Religion
Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.
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Authority Break Goodness Oneself Privacy
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Destroy Passion Philosophy Prejudice
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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Machine Order Ordinary Quality
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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Blood God Myself Sin
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Ignorance Prejudice Remote Truth
The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
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Action Allow Freedom Genius Interest Place
For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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Myself Prostitute Thinking
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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Heart Known Wisdom
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
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
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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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

I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.

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