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Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Denis Diderot

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
Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path
Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
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Bad Country Goodness Government Moral
Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
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Command Force Obedience Power Violence
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
The world is the house of the strong.
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Hard Time Inspirational Strong World
My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.
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Blow Clear Finding Friendship Way
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
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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Philosophy Road
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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Anand Thakur
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
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
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Arouse Patriot Society
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.
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Compare Corner Forget Talent Temptation
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
In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur

Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

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