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Scepticism is the first step toward truth.

Denis Diderot

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
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Allow Music Painting Performance Poetry Superstitious
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
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
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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Force Memories Ourselves Sentence Truth
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Gentle Himself Man Nature
Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.
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Fine Himself Live Man Peace Possession Purity Religious
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Atheist God Injurious
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Children Education Entertainment Man Preference
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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Heart Known Wisdom
It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
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Believe God Important
I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.
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Desire Hope Immortal Myself
Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.
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Build Distance Infinite Mad Plain Separate Tower
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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Anand Thakur
One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.
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Demand Finding Oneself Seek Truth
You have to make it happen.
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One Liner Yourself

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