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Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.

Denis Diderot

I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Expectation Finding Myself Truth
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
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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Machine Order Ordinary Quality
You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Atheist God Injurious
Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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Admire Distance Greatness Promote
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
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 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
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception
The world is the house of the strong.
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Hard Time Inspirational Strong World
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
Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.
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Animal Guide Instinct Intelligence Reason
First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.
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Astonishment Eyes Move Myself
There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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Anand Thakur

Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.

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