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The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
Denis Diderot
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Denis Diderot
Age: 70 †
Born: 1713
Born: October 5
Died: 1784
Died: July 31
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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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Those authors into whose hands nature has placed a magic wand, with which they no sooner touch us than we forget the unhappiness in life, than the darkness leaves our soul, and we are reconciled to existence, should be placed among the benefactors of the human race.
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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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And his hands would plait the priest's entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
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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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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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Isn't it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
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The wisest among us is very lucky never to have met the woman, be she beautiful or ugly, intelligent or stupid, who could drive him crazy enough to be fit to be put into an asylum.
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The world is the house of the strong.
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One must be oneself very little of a philosopher not to feel that the finest privilege of our reason consists in not believing in anything by the impulsion of a blind and mechanical instinct, and that it is to dishonour reason to put it in bonds as the Chaldeans did. Man is born to think for himself.
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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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