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

Denis Diderot

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
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Anand Thakur
Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
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Genius Madness Raise Status
Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one’s innocence with the loss of one’s prejudices.
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Bad Company Innocent Instruction Loss One Prejudice
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
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
The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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Best Doctor Finding Oneself Run
First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.
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Astonishment Eyes Move Myself
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
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
For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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Myself Prostitute Thinking
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
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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Heart Known Wisdom
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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Happiness Oneself Responsibility
The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre
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Anand Thakur
If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the “enthusiasm for truth and justice” using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.
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Dedication Enthusiasm Goodness Life Sense

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