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For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.

Denis Diderot

It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
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Believe God Important
Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.
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Greatness Mindset Moral Passion Raise Small Soul
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
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
There are things I can’t force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
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Adjust Change Force Need Point View
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
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Oneself Path Step
There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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Anand Thakur
How easy it is to tell tales!
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Easy Story
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.
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Build Distance Infinite Mad Plain Separate Tower
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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Heart Known Wisdom
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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Force Memories Ourselves Sentence Truth
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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Blood God Myself Sin
The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
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Action Allow Freedom Genius Interest Place

For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.

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