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In order to get as much fame as one’s father one has to much more able than he.

Denis Diderot

In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Children Education Entertainment Man Preference
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
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Feeling Instrument Memories Object Surround
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
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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Machine Order Ordinary Quality
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
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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Anand Thakur
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
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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Believe God Himself Touch
Whatever dressing one gives to mushrooms, to whatever sauces our Apiciuses put them, they are not really good but to be sent back to the dungheap where they are born.
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Anand Thakur
All children are essentially criminal.
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Children Crime Essential
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Oneself Path Step
Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
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Bad Confusion Different Follow Reveal Truth
I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.
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Desire Hope Immortal Myself
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
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Anand Thakur

In order to get as much fame as one’s father one has to much more able than he.

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