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It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

Denis Diderot

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
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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Feeling Instrument Memories Object Surround
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
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Beg Compassionate Man Poor Possible Shame
The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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Best Doctor Finding Oneself Run
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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Believe God Himself Touch
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Step Truth
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
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
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception
If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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Beautiful Color Disturb Rainbow
Every man has his dignity. I’m willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
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Dignity Man Myself Willing
The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
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

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