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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

Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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Machine Order Ordinary Quality
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
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
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
The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
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Children Father God Himself
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
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
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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Anand Thakur
If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.
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Anand Thakur
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
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
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
All children are essentially criminal.
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Children Crime Essential
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Gentle Himself Man Nature
Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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Anand Thakur
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

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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