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He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.

Denis Diderot

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
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 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
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
DENIS DIDEROT

Path Step Truth
No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.
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Enjoyment Heaven Man Nature Reason Receive
I am wholly yours – you are everything to me; we will sustain each other in all the ills of life it may please fate to inflict upon us; you will soothe my troubles; I will comfort you in yours.
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Each Other Life Trouble Yourself
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
Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.
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Greatness Mindset Moral Passion Raise Small Soul
Only the bad man is alone.
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Alone Bad Man
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
There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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Anand Thakur
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
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
Isn’t it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
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Better Chance Goodness Man
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
DENIS DIDEROT

Philosophy Road

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