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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

I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
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.
DENIS DIDEROT

Allow Music Painting Performance Poetry Superstitious
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Gentle Himself Man Nature
A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.
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Belief Law Myself Nation People Thinking
You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can’t deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
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Essential Kind Respect Wicked Yourself
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Atheist God Injurious
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
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 man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Destroy Man Pronounce
I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.
DENIS DIDEROT

Feeling Judgement Thinking

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