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The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.

Denis Diderot

Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
DENIS DIDEROT

Destroy Doctor Preserve Success Work
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
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
DENIS DIDEROT

Allow Music Painting Performance Poetry Superstitious
The wisest among us is very lucky never to have met the woman, be she beautiful or ugly, intelligent or stupid, who could drive him crazy enough to be fit to be put into an asylum.
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Beautiful Crazy Drive Enough Wisdom Woman
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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Association Catch Ourselves Vice
To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.
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Butterfly Color Pen Wings Woman
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
The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.
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Anand Thakur
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
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
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
One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.
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Demand Finding Oneself Seek Truth
Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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Anand Thakur

The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.

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