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If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.

Denis Diderot

How easy it is to tell tales!
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Easy Story
There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
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Civilization Inflict Kind Man Society Woman
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope
It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
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Desire Fact Production True Willing
Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
DENIS DIDEROT

Genius Madness Raise Status
It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties.
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Difficult God Home Raining
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
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Atheist God Injurious
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
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
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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Philosophy Road
Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge, observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
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Combination Experiment Knowledge Principle Reflection Result

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