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Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.

Denis Diderot

One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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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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Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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Admire Distance Greatness Promote
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Evidence Integrity Virtue
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
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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Heart Known Wisdom
When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
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Allow Music Painting Performance Poetry Superstitious
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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Philosophy Road
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
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
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Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it.
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It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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My ideas are my whores.
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Ideas One Liner Whore

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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