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The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.

Denis Diderot

Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale
Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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Admire Distance Greatness Promote
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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Heart Known Wisdom
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
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
How easy it is to tell tales!
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Easy Story
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
Only the bad man is alone.
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Alone Bad Man
If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.
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Anand Thakur
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 no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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Anand Thakur
Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself to prompting us to great and generous actions?
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Action Direction Generous Object
Whatever dressing one gives to mushrooms, to whatever sauces our Apiciuses put them, they are not really good but to be sent back to the dungheap where they are born.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
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

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