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Denis Diderot

People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you’ve got to keep your feet warm.
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Anand Thakur
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Happiness Oneself Passion
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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Association Catch Ourselves Vice
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild
Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: ‘My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.’ This stranger is a theologian.
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Finding Forest Night Order Stranger Wander Yourself
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
There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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Anand Thakur
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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Anand Thakur
Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.
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Authority Break Goodness Oneself Privacy
A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it. Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Evidence Question Truth
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Oneself Path Step
First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.
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Astonishment Eyes Move Myself
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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Blood God Myself Sin
I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.
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Anand Thakur
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right

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