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Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.

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.
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Age Early Milk Myself
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Expectation Finding Myself Truth
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
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
No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.
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Enjoyment Heaven Man Nature Reason Receive
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
Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
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Beg Compassionate Man Poor Possible Shame
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
What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.
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Comedy Oneself Play World
Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
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Genius Madness Raise Status
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
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
The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
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Anand Thakur
If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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Beautiful Color Disturb Rainbow
Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
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Design Disturb Trouble True
My ideas are my whores.
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Ideas One Liner Whore

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