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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

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
Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.
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Build Distance Infinite Mad Plain Separate Tower
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
Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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Anand Thakur
When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
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Allow Music Painting Performance Poetry Superstitious
It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.
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Love Rob
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
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
The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
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Adult Eyes Infant Man Old
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.
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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
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
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Philosophy Religion Separate
The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur

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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