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

Denis Diderot

How easy it is to tell tales!
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Easy Story
Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.
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Book Greatness Literature Poet Taste
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
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Philosophy Religion Separate
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
Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Atheist God Injurious
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
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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Control Order People Yourself
You have to make it happen.
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One Liner Yourself
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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Force Memories Ourselves Sentence Truth
If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.
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Anand Thakur
Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
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Design Disturb Trouble True
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
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 Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
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Anand Thakur

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

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