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Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.

Denis Diderot

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
There are cats and cats.
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Cat One Liner
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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Anand Thakur
In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.
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Anand Thakur
Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one’s innocence with the loss of one’s prejudices.
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Bad Company Innocent Instruction Loss One Prejudice
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.
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Enjoyment Heaven Man Nature Reason Receive
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
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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Believe God Himself Touch
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Happiness Oneself Passion
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
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
Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
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Command Force Obedience Power Violence
The world is the house of the strong.
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Hard Time Inspirational Strong World
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Children Education Entertainment Man Preference

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