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My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.

Denis Diderot

Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
DENIS DIDEROT

Admire Distance Greatness Promote
In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.
DENIS DIDEROT

Delight Move Surprise Yourself
Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
DENIS DIDEROT

Design Disturb Trouble True
There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
DENIS DIDEROT

Hard Mad Oneself Suffering
Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
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Destroy Doctor Preserve Success Work
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
DENIS DIDEROT

Evidence Integrity Virtue
The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one’s fatherland, which is perishable?
DENIS DIDEROT

Enlightenment Father Greatness Oneself Perish Save
If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the “enthusiasm for truth and justice” using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.
DENIS DIDEROT

Dedication Enthusiasm Goodness Life Sense
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
DENIS DIDEROT

Happiness Oneself Passion
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
There are cats and cats.
DENIS DIDEROT

Cat One Liner
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
DENIS DIDEROT

Believe God Himself Touch

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