One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.
DENIS DIDEROT
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The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
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One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.
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I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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The world is the house of the strong.
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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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What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.
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The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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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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Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.
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Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
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In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.
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Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.
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You have to make it happen.
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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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