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Isn’t it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?

Denis Diderot

There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
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Hard Mad Oneself Suffering
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
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.
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Book Greatness Literature Poet Taste
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Expectation Finding Myself Truth
You have to make it happen.
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One Liner Yourself
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
Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
DENIS DIDEROT

See Theory World
The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
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Adult Eyes Infant Man Old
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
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.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Atheist God Injurious
If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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Beautiful Color Disturb Rainbow
Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.
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Animal Guide Instinct Intelligence Reason
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.
DENIS DIDEROT

Essential Kind Respect Wicked Yourself
There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur

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