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If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.

Denis Diderot

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
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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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
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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Blood God Myself Sin
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
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
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
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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Association Catch Ourselves Vice
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
All children are essentially criminal.
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Children Crime Essential
How easy it is to tell tales!
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Easy Story
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
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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Anand Thakur
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

If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.

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If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.

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