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What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.

Denis Diderot

All children are essentially criminal.
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Children Crime Essential
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
You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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Anand Thakur
I am wholly yours – you are everything to me; we will sustain each other in all the ills of life it may please fate to inflict upon us; you will soothe my troubles; I will comfort you in yours.
DENIS DIDEROT

Each Other Life Trouble Yourself
Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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Admire Distance Greatness Promote
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
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
What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.
DENIS DIDEROT

Impartial Path Step Truth
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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Machine Order Ordinary Quality
Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
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Destroy Doctor Preserve Success Work
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
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Happiness Oneself Passion
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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Blood God Myself Sin
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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Believe God Himself Touch

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