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It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.

Denis Diderot

One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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Anand Thakur
There are things I can’t force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
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Adjust Change Force Need Point View
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.
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Command Force Obedience Power Violence
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Philosophy Religion Separate
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
It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
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Desire Fact Production True Willing
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
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Command Justice Obedience Virtue
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Ignorance Prejudice Remote Truth
What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.
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Impartial Path Step Truth
We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
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Feeling Instrument Memories Object Surround
Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
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

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