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Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.

Denis Diderot

Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Evidence Integrity Virtue
I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.
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Feeling Judgement Thinking
There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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Happiness Oneself Responsibility
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
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
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Ignorance Prejudice Remote Truth
No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.
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Enjoyment Heaven Man Nature Reason Receive
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
DENIS DIDEROT

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
My ideas are my whores.
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Ideas One Liner Whore
When one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz , one is tempted to throw away one’s books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner.
DENIS DIDEROT

Compare Corner Forget Talent Temptation
You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.
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Himself Paint Reveal Writing
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
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
Only the bad man is alone.
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Alone Bad Man
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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Heart Known Wisdom

Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.

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