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The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.

Denis Diderot

There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.
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Death Fear Happiness Justice Virtue
The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
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Action Allow Freedom Genius Interest Place
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
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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Believe God Himself Touch
There are cats and cats.
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Cat One Liner
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.
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Each Other Life Trouble Yourself
We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
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Feeling Instrument Memories Object Surround
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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Anand Thakur
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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Association Catch Ourselves Vice
Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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Anand Thakur
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
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Ignorance Prejudice Remote Truth
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Evil Genius World
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
Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
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Bad Country Goodness Government Moral

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