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The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre

Denis Diderot

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
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
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Command Justice Obedience Virtue
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
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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Believe God Himself Touch
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
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Children Education Entertainment Man Preference
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Ignorance Prejudice Remote Truth
We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
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Feeling Instrument Memories Object Surround
The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre
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Anand Thakur
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Oneself Path Step
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.
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Enjoyment Heaven Man Nature Reason Receive
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
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
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality

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