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There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

Denis Diderot

If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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Believe God Himself Touch
If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.
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Anand Thakur
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
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Desire Fact Production True Willing
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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Abstract Relationship Sign Study
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Step Truth
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Children Education Entertainment Man Preference
In order to get as much fame as one’s father one has to much more able than he.
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Fame Father Himself Order
Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: ‘My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.’ This stranger is a theologian.
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Finding Forest Night Order Stranger Wander Yourself
Only the bad man is alone.
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Alone Bad Man
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
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Expectation Finding Myself Truth
We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
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Bitter Lying Swallow Truth
It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
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Believe God Important
All children are essentially criminal.
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Children Crime Essential
The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

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