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Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.

Denis Diderot

Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Evidence Integrity Virtue
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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Believe God Himself Touch
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
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
The wisest among us is very lucky never to have met the woman, be she beautiful or ugly, intelligent or stupid, who could drive him crazy enough to be fit to be put into an asylum.
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Beautiful Crazy Drive Enough Wisdom Woman
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
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
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
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
Only the bad man is alone.
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Alone Bad Man
A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.
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Belief Law Myself Nation People Thinking
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Atheist God Injurious
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
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
My ideas are my whores.
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Ideas One Liner Whore
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope

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