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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

There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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Anand Thakur
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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Anand Thakur
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Destroy Passion Philosophy Prejudice
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
Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
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Command Force Obedience Power Violence
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Expectation Finding Myself Truth
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
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Creative Experiment Genius Nature Observation
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Happiness Oneself Passion
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.
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Love Rob
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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Association Catch Ourselves Vice
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
There are cats and cats.
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Cat One Liner
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge, observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
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Combination Experiment Knowledge Principle Reflection Result
Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path

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