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

Denis Diderot

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
There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
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Hard Mad Oneself Suffering
Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.
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Authority Break Goodness Oneself Privacy
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
In order to get as much fame as one’s father one has to much more able than he.
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Fame Father Himself Order
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
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
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
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Arouse Patriot Society
I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.
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Feeling Judgement Thinking
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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Anand Thakur
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Atheist God Injurious
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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Anand Thakur
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
DENIS DIDEROT

Force Memories Ourselves Sentence Truth

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

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