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

Denis Diderot

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
Only the bad man is alone.
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Alone Bad Man
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
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Step Truth
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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Philosophy Road
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
First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.
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Astonishment Eyes Move Myself
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
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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Association Catch Ourselves Vice
Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.
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Evil Goodness High Master Writing
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
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
People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you’ve got to keep your feet warm.
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Anand Thakur
Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.
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Greatness Mindset Moral Passion Raise Small Soul
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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Anand Thakur
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth

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