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What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.

Denis Diderot

The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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Blood God Myself Sin
The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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Best Doctor Finding Oneself Run
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
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Evil Genius World
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
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
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.
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Death Fear Happiness Justice Virtue
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
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
I discuss with myself questions of politics, love, taste, or philosophy. I let my mind rove wantonly, give it free rein to followany idea, wise or mad that may present itself. My ideas are my harlots.
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Discussion Love Mad Mindset Myself Politics Present Taste
What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.
DENIS DIDEROT

Impartial Path Step Truth
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
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

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