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

Denis Diderot

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
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Allow Music Painting Performance Poetry Superstitious
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Oneself Path Step
Only the bad man is alone.
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Alone Bad Man
At an early age I sucked up the milk of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato and Euripides, diluted with that of Moses and the prophets.
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Age Early Milk Myself
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
It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties.
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Difficult God Home Raining
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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Philosophy Road
The world is the house of the strong.
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Hard Time Inspirational Strong World
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
Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
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Anand Thakur
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Expectation Finding Myself Truth
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
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
If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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Beautiful Color Disturb Rainbow
Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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Admire Distance Greatness Promote
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

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