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We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.

Denis Diderot

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
We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man’s afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
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Himself Passion Pleasure Source
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Evil Genius World
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
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
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.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
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
Only the bad man is alone.
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Alone Bad Man
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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Admire Distance Greatness Promote
Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale
The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.
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Anand Thakur
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
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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Heart Known Wisdom
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

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