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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.

Denis Diderot

Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
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Divorce Improvement Marriage Partner Population Possible
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
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
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
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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Association Catch Ourselves Vice
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Children Education Entertainment Man Preference
The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Destroy Man Pronounce
Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: ‘My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.’ This stranger is a theologian.
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Finding Forest Night Order Stranger Wander Yourself
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
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Anand Thakur
We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man’s afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
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Himself Passion Pleasure Source
The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.
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Creation Dangerous Mad Man Occasion Religion
Only the bad man is alone.
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Alone Bad Man
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
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Arouse Patriot Society
Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
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Anand Thakur

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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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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