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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.

Denis Diderot

The world is the house of the strong.
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Hard Time Inspirational Strong World
Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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Anand Thakur
Only the bad man is alone.
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Alone Bad Man
The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Destroy Man Pronounce
When one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz , one is tempted to throw away one’s books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner.
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Compare Corner Forget Talent Temptation
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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Bad Company Innocent Instruction Loss One Prejudice
Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: ‘My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.’ This stranger is a theologian.
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Finding Forest Night Order Stranger Wander Yourself
Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.
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Authority Break Goodness Oneself Privacy
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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Heart Known Wisdom
In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
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Necessary Order Shake Willing
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Gentle Himself Man Nature
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
There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.
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Death Fear Happiness Justice Virtue
We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
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Feeling Instrument Memories Object Surround

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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