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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.

Denis Diderot

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
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
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Oneself Path Step
The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Destroy Man Pronounce
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
When one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz , one is tempted to throw away one’s books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner.
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Compare Corner Forget Talent Temptation
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Children Education Entertainment Man Preference
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
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Anand Thakur
We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
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Feeling Instrument Memories Object Surround
How easy it is to tell tales!
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Easy Story
You have to make it happen.
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One Liner Yourself
One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.
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Demand Finding Oneself Seek Truth
To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.
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Definition Himself Man Strength Weakness
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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Anand Thakur
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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Philosophy Road
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Evidence Integrity Virtue

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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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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