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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

In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
DENIS DIDEROT

Children Education Entertainment Man Preference
For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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Myself Prostitute Thinking
Isn’t it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
DENIS DIDEROT

Better Chance Goodness Man
My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.
DENIS DIDEROT

Blow Clear Finding Friendship Way
You have to make it happen.
DENIS DIDEROT

One Liner Yourself
Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
DENIS DIDEROT

Control Order People 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.
DENIS DIDEROT

Creation Dangerous Mad Man Occasion Religion
The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Destroy Man Pronounce
I discuss with myself questions of politics, love, taste, or philosophy. I let my mind rove wantonly, give it free rein to followany idea, wise or mad that may present itself. My ideas are my harlots.
DENIS DIDEROT

Discussion Love Mad Mindset Myself Politics Present Taste
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.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.
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Desire Hope Immortal Myself
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
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Anand Thakur
Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path
My ideas are my whores.
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Ideas One Liner Whore
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest

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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