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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

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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Force Memories Ourselves Sentence Truth
There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.
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Death Fear Happiness Justice Virtue
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
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
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild
My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.
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Blow Clear Finding Friendship Way
The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Destroy Man Pronounce
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
Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one’s innocence with the loss of one’s prejudices.
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Bad Company Innocent Instruction Loss One Prejudice
When one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz , one is tempted to throw away one’s books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner.
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Compare Corner Forget Talent Temptation
Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.
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Evil Goodness High Master Writing
If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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Beautiful Color Disturb Rainbow
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
It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
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Believe God Important
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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