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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.

Denis Diderot

Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Step Truth
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Gentle Himself Man Nature
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
The wisest among us is very lucky never to have met the woman, be she beautiful or ugly, intelligent or stupid, who could drive him crazy enough to be fit to be put into an asylum.
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Beautiful Crazy Drive Enough Wisdom Woman
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Atheist God Injurious
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
You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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Anand Thakur
To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.
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Butterfly Color Pen Wings Woman
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 general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Children Education Entertainment Man Preference
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
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Bad Country Goodness Government Moral
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
It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
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Desire Fact Production True Willing
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
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right

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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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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