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What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.

Denis Diderot

What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.
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Impartial Path Step Truth
A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it. Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Evidence Question Truth
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
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
My ideas are my whores.
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Ideas One Liner Whore
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
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
Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
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Design Disturb Trouble True
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Destroy Passion Philosophy Prejudice
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Oneself Path Step
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.
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Book Greatness Literature Poet Taste
We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man’s afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
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Himself Passion Pleasure Source
In order to get as much fame as one’s father one has to much more able than he.
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Fame Father Himself Order
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Evil Genius World

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