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Distance is a great promoter of admiration.

Denis Diderot

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
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
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Children Education Entertainment Man Preference
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Step Truth
The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
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Children Father God Himself
What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.
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Comedy Oneself Play World
The world is the house of the strong.
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Hard Time Inspirational Strong World
First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.
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Delight Move Surprise Yourself
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 bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre
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Anand Thakur
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
Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.
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Animal Guide Instinct Intelligence Reason
It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
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Believe God Important
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Gentle Himself Man Nature

Distance is a great promoter of admiration.

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