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Quote by Denis Diderot
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable convent

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. – Denis Diderot

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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. – Denis Diderot

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Fanaticism
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Denis Diderot
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Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man. – Denis Diderot

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Faith
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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a mans nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. – Francis Bacon

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Nature

Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature. – Bodhidharma

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Nature

Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass. – Rupert Brooke

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Nature

The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man. – Author Unknown

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I fear its because religion is mans attempt to reach God, and when he feels he has succeeded, he cannot abide anyone elses claim to have done the same. – Jerry B. Jenkins

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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself. – Henry Miller

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Mens vows are womens traitors! – William Shakespeare

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It is good rule in life to never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them. – P. G. [Sir Pelham Grenville] Wodehouse

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