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Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.

Denis Diderot

Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.
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Book Greatness Literature Poet Taste
The world is the house of the strong.
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Hard Time Inspirational Strong World
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Philosophy Religion Separate
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
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Evil Genius World
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
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 Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
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Anand Thakur
The wisest among us is very lucky never to have met the woman, be she beautiful or ugly, intelligent or stupid, who could drive him crazy enough to be fit to be put into an asylum.
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Beautiful Crazy Drive Enough Wisdom Woman
There are cats and cats.
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Cat One Liner
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
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Arouse Patriot Society
There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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Happiness Oneself Responsibility
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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Anand Thakur
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Ignorance Prejudice Remote Truth
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality

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