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Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.

Denis Diderot

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
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
DENIS DIDEROT

Heart Known Wisdom
Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
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Genius Madness Raise Status
The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
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Anand Thakur
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Gentle Himself Man Nature
The wisest among us is very lucky never to have met the woman, be she beautiful or ugly, intelligent or stupid, who could drive him crazy enough to be fit to be put into an asylum.
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Beautiful Crazy Drive Enough Wisdom Woman
Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
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Bad Confusion Different Follow Reveal Truth
Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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Admire Distance Greatness Promote
The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Destroy Man Pronounce
Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale
Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
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Command Force Obedience Power Violence
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
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
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Atheist God Injurious

Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.

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