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There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.

Denis Diderot

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
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Oneself Path Step
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
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild
The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre
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Anand Thakur
Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
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Destroy Doctor Preserve Success Work
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
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.
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Delight Move Surprise Yourself
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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Heart Known Wisdom
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Destroy Passion Philosophy Prejudice
All children are essentially criminal.
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Children Crime Essential
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
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
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
There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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Happiness Oneself Responsibility

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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