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Isn’t it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?

Denis Diderot

Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it.
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Anand Thakur
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
The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Destroy Man Pronounce
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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Machine Order Ordinary Quality
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
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
To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.
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Butterfly Color Pen Wings Woman
The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
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Children Father God Himself
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Atheist God Injurious
For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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Myself Prostitute Thinking
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
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
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
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
The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.
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Creation Dangerous Mad Man Occasion Religion
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality

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