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To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.

Denis Diderot

It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
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Desire Fact Production True Willing
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Evidence Integrity Virtue
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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Anand Thakur
There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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Happiness Oneself Responsibility
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
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
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
Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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Admire Distance Greatness Promote
How easy it is to tell tales!
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Easy Story
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
A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it. Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Evidence Question Truth
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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Anand Thakur
There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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Anand Thakur
I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.
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Anand Thakur
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
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Command Justice Obedience Virtue
The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.
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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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