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I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.

Denis Diderot

Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.
DENIS DIDEROT

Fine Himself Live Man Peace Possession Purity Religious
We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man’s afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
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Himself Passion Pleasure Source
The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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Best Doctor Finding Oneself Run
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
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
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Ignorance Prejudice Remote Truth
When one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz , one is tempted to throw away one’s books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner.
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Compare Corner Forget Talent Temptation
If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can’t deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
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Essential Kind Respect Wicked Yourself
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
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Bad Country Goodness Government Moral
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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Machine Order Ordinary Quality
All children are essentially criminal.
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Children Crime Essential
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.
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Evil Goodness High Master Writing
There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
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Civilization Inflict Kind Man Society Woman

I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.

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