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He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.

Denis Diderot

The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Destroy Man Pronounce
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Evil Genius World
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
First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.
DENIS DIDEROT

Astonishment Eyes Move Myself
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Atheist God Injurious
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
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception
The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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Best Doctor Finding Oneself Run
You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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Anand Thakur
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 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
A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.
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Belief Law Myself Nation People Thinking
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
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
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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Believe God Himself Touch
There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
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Hard Mad Oneself Suffering

He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.

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