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In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.

Denis Diderot

Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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Machine Order Ordinary Quality
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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Philosophy Road
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
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
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
The world is the house of the strong.
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Hard Time Inspirational Strong World
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 a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
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Bad Confusion Different Follow Reveal Truth
You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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Anand Thakur
To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.
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Definition Himself Man Strength Weakness
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Destroy Passion Philosophy Prejudice
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
People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you’ve got to keep your feet warm.
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Anand Thakur
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.
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Comedy Oneself Play World
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

In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.

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