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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Denis Diderot

One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
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
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
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
The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
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Adult Eyes Infant Man Old
Isn’t it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
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Better Chance Goodness Man
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
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Civilization Inflict Kind Man Society Woman
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Children Education Entertainment Man Preference
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
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Necessary Order Shake Willing
My ideas are my whores.
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Ideas One Liner Whore
To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.
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Butterfly Color Pen Wings Woman
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
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
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Ignorance Prejudice Remote Truth

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