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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.

Denis Diderot

If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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Beautiful Color Disturb Rainbow
A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it. Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Evidence Question Truth
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.
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Desire Hope Immortal Myself
Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
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Bad Confusion Different Follow Reveal Truth
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre
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Anand Thakur
If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can’t deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
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Essential Kind Respect Wicked Yourself
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
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Expectation Finding Myself Truth
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Evidence Integrity Virtue
There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
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Civilization Inflict Kind Man Society Woman
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Step Truth
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People

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