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Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.

Denis Diderot

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
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
Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
DENIS DIDEROT

Control Order People Yourself
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
DENIS DIDEROT

Expectation Finding Myself Truth
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
DENIS DIDEROT

Arouse Patriot Society
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
DENIS DIDEROT

Poetry Vast Wild
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
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.
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Anand Thakur
The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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Best Doctor Finding Oneself Run
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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Force Memories Ourselves Sentence Truth
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Atheist God Injurious
No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.
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Enjoyment Heaven Man Nature Reason Receive
We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man’s afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
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Himself Passion Pleasure Source
There are cats and cats.
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Cat One Liner

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