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“I have observed, indeed, generally, that while in protestant countries the defections from the Platonic Christianity of the priests is to Deism, in catholic countries they are to Atheism. Diderot, D'Alembert, D’Holbach, Condorcet, are known to have been among the most virtuous of men. Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than the love of God.

[Letter to Thomas Law, 13 June 1814]”
― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

tags: atheism, baron-d-holbach, condorcet, d-alembert, d-holbach, deism, denis-diderot, diderot, jean-le-rond-d-alembert, marquis-de-condorcet, paul-henri-d-holbach, platonic, platonic-christianity, protestant

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“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
― C.S. Lewis

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“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage

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“We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more.”
― Bill Clinton

tags: cooperation, difference, humanity, society

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“There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.
" Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.”
― Alexandre Dumas

tags: hope, inspirational, wisdom

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