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The wisest among us is very lucky never to have met the woman, be she beautiful or ugly, intelligent or stupid, who could drive him crazy enough to be fit to be put into an asylum.

Denis Diderot

People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you’ve got to keep your feet warm.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
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
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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Believe God Himself Touch
There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
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Hard Mad Oneself Suffering
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
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Evidence Integrity Virtue
Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.
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Greatness Mindset Moral Passion Raise Small Soul
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Evil Genius World
Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: ‘My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.’ This stranger is a theologian.
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Finding Forest Night Order Stranger Wander Yourself
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
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
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Philosophy Religion Separate
It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.
DENIS DIDEROT

Love Rob

The wisest among us is very lucky never to have met the woman, be she beautiful or ugly, intelligent or stupid, who could drive him crazy enough to be fit to be put into an asylum.

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The wisest among us is very lucky never to have met the woman, be she beautiful or ugly, intelligent or stupid, who could drive him crazy enough to be fit to be put into an asylum.

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