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The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.

Denis Diderot

Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
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Arouse Patriot Society
Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
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Genius Madness Raise Status
Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.
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Fine Himself Live Man Peace Possession Purity Religious
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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Anand Thakur
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
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
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Destroy Doctor Preserve Success Work
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
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.
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Anand Thakur
The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Destroy Man Pronounce
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
I am wholly yours – you are everything to me; we will sustain each other in all the ills of life it may please fate to inflict upon us; you will soothe my troubles; I will comfort you in yours.
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Each Other Life Trouble Yourself
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
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Atheist God Injurious
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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Blood God Myself Sin

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