Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
DENIS DIDEROT
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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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Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
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If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.
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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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Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
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No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
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Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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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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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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There are things I can’t force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
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First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.
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