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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

To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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Anand Thakur
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Destroy Passion Philosophy Prejudice
Only the bad man is alone.
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Alone Bad Man
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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Association Catch Ourselves Vice
One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.
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Demand Finding Oneself Seek Truth
In order to get as much fame as one’s father one has to much more able than he.
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Fame Father Himself Order
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.
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Anand Thakur
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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Anand Thakur
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
When one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz , one is tempted to throw away one’s books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner.
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Compare Corner Forget Talent Temptation
Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
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
We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man’s afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
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Himself Passion Pleasure Source
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
If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the “enthusiasm for truth and justice” using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.
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Dedication Enthusiasm Goodness Life Sense

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.

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