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You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.

Denis Diderot

If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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Believe God Himself Touch
Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself to prompting us to great and generous actions?
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Action Direction Generous Object
When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
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Allow Music Painting Performance Poetry Superstitious
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
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
You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.
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Himself Paint Reveal Writing
No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.
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Enjoyment Heaven Man Nature Reason Receive
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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Force Memories Ourselves Sentence Truth
You have to make it happen.
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One Liner Yourself
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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Adjust Change Force Need Point View
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Evidence Integrity Virtue
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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Blood God Myself Sin
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
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
Isn’t it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
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Better Chance Goodness Man
Every man has his dignity. I’m willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
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Dignity Man Myself Willing

You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.

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