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Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

Denis Diderot

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.
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Design Disturb Trouble True
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
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
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
For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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Myself Prostitute Thinking
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Atheist God Injurious
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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Anand Thakur
Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
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Genius Madness Raise Status
It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.
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Love Rob
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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Anand Thakur
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
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Philosophy Religion Separate
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
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Necessary Order Shake Willing
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 only one duty; that is to be happy.
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Happiness Oneself Responsibility
Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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Believe God Himself Touch
Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it.
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Anand Thakur
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope
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
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
Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one’s innocence with the loss of one’s prejudices.
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Bad Company Innocent Instruction Loss One Prejudice
In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.
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Anand Thakur
How easy it is to tell tales!
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Easy Story
You have to make it happen.
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One Liner Yourself

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

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