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Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one’s innocence with the loss of one’s prejudices.

Denis Diderot

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
Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.
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Fine Himself Live Man Peace Possession Purity Religious
I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.
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Anand Thakur
Only the bad man is alone.
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Alone Bad Man
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
Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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Admire Distance Greatness Promote
If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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Beautiful Color Disturb Rainbow
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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Association Catch Ourselves Vice
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
How easy it is to tell tales!
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Easy Story
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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Blood God Myself Sin
It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
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Believe God Important
There are cats and cats.
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Cat One Liner
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild
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

Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one’s innocence with the loss of one’s prejudices.

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