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Distance is a great promoter of admiration.

Denis Diderot

No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
There are things I can’t force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
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Adjust Change Force Need Point View
What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.
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Impartial Path Step Truth
If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the “enthusiasm for truth and justice” using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.
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Dedication Enthusiasm Goodness Life Sense
At an early age I sucked up the milk of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato and Euripides, diluted with that of Moses and the prophets.
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Age Early Milk Myself
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Gentle Himself Man Nature
It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
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Desire Fact Production True Willing
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties.
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Difficult God Home Raining
I am wholly yours – you are everything to me; we will sustain each other in all the ills of life it may please fate to inflict upon us; you will soothe my troubles; I will comfort you in yours.
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Each Other Life Trouble Yourself
All children are essentially criminal.
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Children Crime Essential
In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
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Necessary Order Shake Willing
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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Force Memories Ourselves Sentence Truth
Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.
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Greatness Mindset Moral Passion Raise Small Soul
Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
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