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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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Denis Diderot
Age: 70 †
Born: 1713
Born: October 5
Died: 1784
Died: July 31
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Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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But if you will recall the history of our civil troubles, you will see half the nation bathe itself, out of piety, in the blood of the other half, and violate the fundamental feelings of humanity in order to sustain the cause of God: as though it were necessary to cease to be a man in order to prove oneself religious!
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Isn't it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
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There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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