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I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.

Denis Diderot

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
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Oneself Path Step
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
First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.
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Delight Move Surprise Yourself
Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
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See Theory World
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
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
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Command Justice Obedience Virtue
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
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Allow Music Painting Performance Poetry Superstitious
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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Force Memories Ourselves Sentence Truth
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
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Happiness Oneself Passion
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Philosophy Religion Separate
There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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Happiness Oneself Responsibility
Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
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Anand Thakur
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

I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.

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