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Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.

Denis Diderot

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
If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
My ideas are my whores.
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Ideas One Liner Whore
I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.
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Anand Thakur
There are cats and cats.
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Cat One Liner
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
People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you’ve got to keep your feet warm.
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Anand Thakur
If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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Beautiful Color Disturb Rainbow
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
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Command Justice Obedience Virtue
Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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Admire Distance Greatness Promote
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
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
Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself to prompting us to great and generous actions?
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Action Direction Generous Object
The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
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Adult Eyes Infant Man Old

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