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We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.

Denis Diderot

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.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
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.
DENIS DIDEROT

Each Other Life Trouble Yourself
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Happiness Oneself Passion
My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.
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Blow Clear Finding Friendship Way
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
DENIS DIDEROT

Bitter Lying Swallow Truth
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Evil Genius World
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 duty; that is to be happy.
DENIS DIDEROT

Happiness Oneself Responsibility
Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
I discuss with myself questions of politics, love, taste, or philosophy. I let my mind rove wantonly, give it free rein to followany idea, wise or mad that may present itself. My ideas are my harlots.
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Discussion Love Mad Mindset Myself Politics Present Taste
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
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Evidence Integrity Virtue
Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.
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Book Greatness Literature Poet Taste
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
Only the bad man is alone.
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Alone Bad Man
You have to make it happen.
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One Liner Yourself
All children are essentially criminal.
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Children Crime Essential
In order to get as much fame as one’s father one has to much more able than he.
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Fame Father Himself Order
The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.
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Creation Dangerous Mad Man Occasion Religion
The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
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Action Allow Freedom Genius Interest Place
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.
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Design Disturb Trouble True
A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.
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Belief Law Myself Nation People Thinking

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