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

Denis Diderot

Every man has his dignity. I’m willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
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Dignity Man Myself Willing
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Destroy Passion Philosophy Prejudice
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
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Anand Thakur
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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Anand Thakur
People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you’ve got to keep your feet warm.
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Anand Thakur
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
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
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Anand Thakur
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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Philosophy Road
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
Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.
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Greatness Mindset Moral Passion Raise Small Soul
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
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 command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
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Civilization Inflict Kind Man Society Woman
Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
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Control Order People Yourself

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