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Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.

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
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
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Destroy Passion Philosophy Prejudice
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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Heart Known Wisdom
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
Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
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Command Force Obedience Power Violence
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
All children are essentially criminal.
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Children Crime Essential
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
We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
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Bitter Lying Swallow Truth
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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Anand Thakur
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
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
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Philosophy Religion Separate
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
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

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