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Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.

Denis Diderot

There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
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
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
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Creative Experiment Genius Nature Observation
Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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Admire Distance Greatness Promote
A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.
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Belief Law Myself Nation People Thinking
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
Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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Anand Thakur
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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Believe God Himself Touch
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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Association Catch Ourselves Vice
I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.
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Desire Hope Immortal Myself
The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
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Anand Thakur
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Expectation Finding Myself Truth
Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale

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