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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

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
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception
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
Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one’s innocence with the loss of one’s prejudices.
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Bad Company Innocent Instruction Loss One Prejudice
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Step Truth
There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.
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Death Fear Happiness Justice Virtue
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
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties.
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Difficult God Home Raining
It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
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Desire Fact Production True Willing
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild
What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.
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Comedy Oneself Play World
The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Destroy Man Pronounce
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Atheist God Injurious

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