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Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

Denis Diderot

One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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Happiness Oneself Responsibility
Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
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Bad Confusion Different Follow Reveal Truth
There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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Anand Thakur
Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
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Beg Compassionate Man Poor Possible Shame
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
Every man has his dignity. I’m willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
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Dignity Man Myself Willing
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
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
The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
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Children Father God Himself
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
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
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
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
The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
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Anand Thakur

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