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We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.

Denis Diderot

Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: ‘My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.’ This stranger is a theologian.
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Finding Forest Night Order Stranger Wander Yourself
My ideas are my whores.
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Ideas One Liner Whore
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.
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Build Distance Infinite Mad Plain Separate Tower
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Expectation Finding Myself Truth
You have to make it happen.
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One Liner Yourself
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
My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.
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Blow Clear Finding Friendship Way
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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Anand Thakur
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Happiness Oneself Passion
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
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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Philosophy Road
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
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one’s fatherland, which is perishable?
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Enlightenment Father Greatness Oneself Perish Save
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

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