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Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.

Denis Diderot

No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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Anand Thakur
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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Machine Order Ordinary Quality
The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Destroy Man Pronounce
The wisest among us is very lucky never to have met the woman, be she beautiful or ugly, intelligent or stupid, who could drive him crazy enough to be fit to be put into an asylum.
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Beautiful Crazy Drive Enough Wisdom Woman
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
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
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Step Truth
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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Anand Thakur
Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
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Genius Madness Raise Status
If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.
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Anand Thakur
Every man has his dignity. I’m willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
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Dignity Man Myself Willing
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.
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Blow Clear Finding Friendship Way
There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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Anand Thakur

Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.

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