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

Denis Diderot

Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.
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Evil Goodness High Master Writing
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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Machine Order Ordinary Quality
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.
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Anand Thakur
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
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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Philosophy Road
Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself to prompting us to great and generous actions?
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Action Direction Generous Object
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Atheist God Injurious
Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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Admire Distance Greatness Promote
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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Anand Thakur
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
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Happiness Oneself Passion
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
We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
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Bitter Lying Swallow Truth
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
If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the “enthusiasm for truth and justice” using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.
DENIS DIDEROT

Dedication Enthusiasm Goodness Life Sense

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