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Denis Diderot

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
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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Believe God Himself Touch
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
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
The world is the house of the strong.
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Hard Time Inspirational Strong World
Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
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Control Order People Yourself
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Children Education Entertainment Man Preference
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
Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.
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Build Distance Infinite Mad Plain Separate Tower
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
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Creative Experiment Genius Nature Observation
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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Anand Thakur
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
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Destroy Passion Philosophy Prejudice

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