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There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.

Denis Diderot

The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
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Children Father God Himself
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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Anand Thakur
Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.
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Greatness Mindset Moral Passion Raise Small Soul
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Oneself Path Step
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
All children are essentially criminal.
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Children Crime Essential
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Children Education Entertainment Man Preference
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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Heart Known Wisdom
In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
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Necessary Order Shake Willing
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Happiness Oneself Passion
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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Force Memories Ourselves Sentence Truth
The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
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Divorce Improvement Marriage Partner Population Possible
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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Blood God Myself Sin
Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
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Command Force Obedience Power Violence
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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Anand Thakur

There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.

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