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

Denis Diderot

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
Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
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Bad Country Goodness Government Moral
Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
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Destroy Doctor Preserve Success Work
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
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
When one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz , one is tempted to throw away one’s books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner.
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Compare Corner Forget Talent Temptation
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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Machine Order Ordinary Quality
Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path
There are cats and cats.
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Cat One Liner
There are things I can’t force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
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Adjust Change Force Need Point View
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
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
If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can’t deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
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Essential Kind Respect Wicked Yourself
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

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