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

Denis Diderot

You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.
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Himself Paint Reveal Writing
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Philosophy Religion Separate
All children are essentially criminal.
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Children Crime Essential
If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the “enthusiasm for truth and justice” using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.
DENIS DIDEROT

Dedication Enthusiasm Goodness Life Sense
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
DENIS DIDEROT

Arouse Patriot Society
Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
DENIS DIDEROT

Command Force Obedience Power Violence
The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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Anand Thakur
Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
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Bad Country Goodness Government Moral
There are cats and cats.
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Cat One Liner
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
How easy it is to tell tales!
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Easy Story
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
Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself to prompting us to great and generous actions?
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Action Direction Generous Object
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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Blood God Myself Sin
Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
DENIS DIDEROT

See Theory World
Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
DENIS DIDEROT

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
First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.
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Astonishment Eyes Move Myself
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
The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.
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Creation Dangerous Mad Man Occasion Religion
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
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
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
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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Force Memories Ourselves Sentence Truth
The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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Best Doctor Finding Oneself Run
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right

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

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