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Good music is very close to primitive language.

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
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.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.
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Belief Law Myself Nation People Thinking
Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one’s fatherland, which is perishable?
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Enlightenment Father Greatness Oneself Perish Save
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Children Education Entertainment Man Preference
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Gentle Himself Man Nature
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
In order to get as much fame as one’s father one has to much more able than he.
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Fame Father Himself Order
There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
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Civilization Inflict Kind Man Society Woman
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Destroy Passion Philosophy Prejudice
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Expectation Finding Myself Truth
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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Blood God Myself Sin
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
Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself to prompting us to great and generous actions?
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Action Direction Generous Object
Every man has his dignity. I’m willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
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Dignity Man Myself Willing

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