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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

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
Whatever dressing one gives to mushrooms, to whatever sauces our Apiciuses put them, they are not really good but to be sent back to the dungheap where they are born.
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Anand Thakur
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
For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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Myself Prostitute Thinking
If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the “enthusiasm for truth and justice” using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.
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Dedication Enthusiasm Goodness Life Sense
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
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
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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Philosophy Road
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Gentle Himself Man Nature
There are cats and cats.
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Cat One Liner
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
Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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Anand Thakur
It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
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Believe God Important

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