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

Denis Diderot

Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.
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Evil Goodness High Master Writing
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception
Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
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Command Force Obedience Power Violence
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
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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Heart Known Wisdom
The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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Best Doctor Finding Oneself Run
Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
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Anand Thakur
We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man’s afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
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Himself Passion Pleasure Source
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
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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Blood God Myself Sin
Isn’t it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
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Better Chance Goodness Man
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
I discuss with myself questions of politics, love, taste, or philosophy. I let my mind rove wantonly, give it free rein to followany idea, wise or mad that may present itself. My ideas are my harlots.
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Discussion Love Mad Mindset Myself Politics Present Taste
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 true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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Anand Thakur

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

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