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«My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.»
«My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants. I allow of no writing for the poor. My object is not to make fanatics, but to train up the lower classes in habits of industry and piety.»
«Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.»
«PIETY, n. Reverence for the Supreme Being, based upon His supposed resemblance to man.The pig is taught by sermons and epistles To think the God of Swine has snout and bristles. --Judibras»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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bristle, bristles, bristling, bristling with, epistles, piety, pig, resemblance, sermons, snout, Supreme Being, swine
«I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his ''divine service.''»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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dancer, Divine, divine service, divine spirit, finally, fine, fine art, fine arts, good spirit, ideal, in good spirits, philosopher, piety, The Spirit
«Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety.»
«Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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acquirement, acquirements, foreign, foreign language, foreign languages, morals, paralysis, piety, poker, pokers
«Mothers of those days were women of great piety and noble character.They practiced virtue and set an example to the children! only from the wombs of such noble women were born sons of high character!»
«No, thou villain, thou art full of piety»
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