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A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.

Denis Diderot

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
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you’ve got to keep your feet warm.
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Anand Thakur
Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
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Design Disturb Trouble True
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Oneself Path Step
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Philosophy Religion Separate
Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one’s innocence with the loss of one’s prejudices.
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Bad Company Innocent Instruction Loss One Prejudice
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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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
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
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Happiness Oneself Passion
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Expectation Finding Myself Truth
There are cats and cats.
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Cat One Liner
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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Abstract Relationship Sign Study
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
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Feeling Instrument Memories Object Surround

A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.

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