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The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.

Denis Diderot

Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one’s fatherland, which is perishable?
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Enlightenment Father Greatness Oneself Perish Save
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
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
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Anand Thakur
Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
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Anand Thakur
Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.
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Greatness Mindset Moral Passion Raise Small Soul
Only the bad man is alone.
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Alone Bad Man
It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.
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Love Rob
For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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Myself Prostitute Thinking
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
There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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Anand Thakur
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Happiness Oneself Passion
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
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

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