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No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.

Denis Diderot

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
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.
DENIS DIDEROT

Each Other Life Trouble Yourself
In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
DENIS DIDEROT

Necessary Order Shake Willing
If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can’t deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
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Essential Kind Respect Wicked Yourself
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
The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.
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Creation Dangerous Mad Man Occasion Religion
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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Admire Distance Greatness Promote
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
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
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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Anand Thakur
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
I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.
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Feeling Judgement Thinking
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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Abstract Relationship Sign Study
Only the bad man is alone.
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Alone Bad Man
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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Association Catch Ourselves Vice

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