There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
DENIS DIDEROT
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There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.
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All children are essentially criminal.
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Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
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Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.
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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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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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Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.
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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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Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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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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