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Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.

Denis Diderot

Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
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Creative Experiment Genius Nature Observation
The wisest among us is very lucky never to have met the woman, be she beautiful or ugly, intelligent or stupid, who could drive him crazy enough to be fit to be put into an asylum.
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Beautiful Crazy Drive Enough Wisdom Woman
What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.
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Impartial Path Step Truth
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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Believe God Himself Touch
The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Destroy Man Pronounce
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Step Truth
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
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Beg Compassionate Man Poor Possible Shame
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
There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Oneself Path Step
There are cats and cats.
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Cat One Liner
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
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Destroy Passion Philosophy Prejudice

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