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My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.

Denis Diderot

Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.
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Greatness Mindset Moral Passion Raise Small Soul
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Oneself Path Step
The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Destroy Man Pronounce
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
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Anand Thakur
Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
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Destroy Doctor Preserve Success Work
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Children Education Entertainment Man Preference
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Destroy Passion Philosophy Prejudice
Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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Anand Thakur
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
How easy it is to tell tales!
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Easy Story
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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Anand Thakur
Isn’t it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
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Better Chance Goodness Man
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.
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Feeling Judgement Thinking
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Ignorance Prejudice Remote Truth

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