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If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.

Denis Diderot

At an early age I sucked up the milk of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato and Euripides, diluted with that of Moses and the prophets.
DENIS DIDEROT

Age Early Milk Myself
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
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
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.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.
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Himself Paint Reveal Writing
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Oneself Path Step
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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Force Memories Ourselves Sentence Truth
You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
DENIS DIDEROT

Myself Prostitute Thinking
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.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
DENIS DIDEROT

Desire Fact Production True Willing
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Step Truth
Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale
The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
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Children Father God Himself
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 good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur

If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.

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