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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

Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.
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Book Greatness Literature Poet Taste
Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
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Genius Madness Raise Status
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception
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
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
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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Force Memories Ourselves Sentence Truth
Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.
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Evil Goodness High Master Writing
For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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Myself Prostitute Thinking
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
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 far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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Association Catch Ourselves Vice
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Philosophy Religion Separate
The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Destroy Man Pronounce
The world is the house of the strong.
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Hard Time Inspirational Strong World
At an early age I sucked up the milk of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato and Euripides, diluted with that of Moses and the prophets.
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Age Early Milk Myself
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
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Command Justice Obedience Virtue

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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