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Denis Diderot

Whatever dressing one gives to mushrooms, to whatever sauces our Apiciuses put them, they are not really good but to be sent back to the dungheap where they are born.
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Anand Thakur
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
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Anand Thakur
If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.
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Anand Thakur
When one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz , one is tempted to throw away one’s books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner.
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Compare Corner Forget Talent Temptation
Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
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Anand Thakur
How easy it is to tell tales!
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Easy Story
You have to make it happen.
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One Liner Yourself
The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
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Action Allow Freedom Genius Interest Place
One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.
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Demand Finding Oneself Seek Truth
Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale
Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
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Bad Country Goodness Government Moral
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
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Bitter Lying Swallow Truth
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it. Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
DENIS DIDEROT

Evidence Question Truth

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