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Denis Diderot

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
A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it. Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Evidence Question Truth
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
You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.
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Himself Paint Reveal Writing
There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
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Hard Mad Oneself Suffering
The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
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Adult Eyes Infant Man Old
If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can’t deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
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Essential Kind Respect Wicked Yourself
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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Heart Known Wisdom
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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Blood God Myself Sin
How easy it is to tell tales!
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Easy Story
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception
If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the “enthusiasm for truth and justice” using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.
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Dedication Enthusiasm Goodness Life Sense
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
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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Association Catch Ourselves Vice
There are cats and cats.
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Cat One Liner
I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.
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Desire Hope Immortal Myself

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