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A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it. Skepticism is the first step toward truth.

Denis Diderot

It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
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Believe God Important
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
The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Destroy Man Pronounce
Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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Admire Distance Greatness Promote
If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can’t deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
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Essential Kind Respect Wicked Yourself
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
There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
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Civilization Inflict Kind Man Society Woman
If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.
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Anand Thakur
The world is the house of the strong.
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Hard Time Inspirational Strong World
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild
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
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it. Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Evidence Question Truth
The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
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Adult Eyes Infant Man Old
Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.
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Animal Guide Instinct Intelligence Reason
Only the bad man is alone.
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Alone Bad Man

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