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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

Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Ignorance Prejudice Remote Truth
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
The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
DENIS DIDEROT

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
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Philosophy Religion Separate
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Expectation Finding Myself Truth
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Children Education Entertainment Man Preference
For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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Myself Prostitute Thinking
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.
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Authority Break Goodness Oneself Privacy
Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it.
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Anand Thakur
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
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See Theory World
There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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Happiness Oneself Responsibility
How easy it is to tell tales!
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Easy Story
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive

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