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You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.

Denis Diderot

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
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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Authority Break Goodness Oneself Privacy
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
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Command Justice Obedience Virtue
The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
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Children Father God Himself
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Destroy Passion Philosophy Prejudice
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Happiness Oneself Passion
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
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Philosophy Religion Separate
We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
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Bitter Lying Swallow Truth
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
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
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
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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Anand Thakur
Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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Admire Distance Greatness Promote
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
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Anand Thakur
To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.
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Butterfly Color Pen Wings Woman

You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.

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