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I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.

Denis Diderot

There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
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
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
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
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
Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.
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Feeling Judgement Thinking
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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Anand Thakur
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Atheist God Injurious
To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.
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Definition Himself Man Strength Weakness
There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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Happiness Oneself Responsibility
Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.
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Animal Guide Instinct Intelligence Reason
My ideas are my whores.
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Ideas One Liner Whore
If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur

I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.

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