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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

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
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Expectation Finding Myself Truth
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Destroy Passion Philosophy Prejudice
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
How easy it is to tell tales!
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Easy Story
Whatever dressing one gives to mushrooms, to whatever sauces our Apiciuses put them, they are not really good but to be sent back to the dungheap where they are born.
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Anand Thakur
What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.
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Impartial Path Step 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
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
My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.
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Blow Clear Finding Friendship Way
First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.
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Astonishment Eyes Move Myself
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
Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale
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
Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it.
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Anand Thakur

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

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