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Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.

Denis Diderot

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
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Command Justice Obedience Virtue
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
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
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
The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre
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Anand Thakur
Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.
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Book Greatness Literature Poet Taste
First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.
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Astonishment Eyes Move Myself
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope
Isn’t it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
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Better Chance Goodness Man
There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
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Civilization Inflict Kind Man Society Woman
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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Anand Thakur
Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.
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Build Distance Infinite Mad Plain Separate Tower
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

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