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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Denis Diderot

A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.
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Belief Law Myself Nation People Thinking
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Ignorance Prejudice Remote Truth
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
There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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Happiness Oneself Responsibility
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
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
You have to make it happen.
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One Liner Yourself
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
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
I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.
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Anand Thakur
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
It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties.
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Difficult God Home Raining
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Evil Genius World
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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Believe God Himself Touch
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Step Truth
Only the bad man is alone.
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Alone Bad Man

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