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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

In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Children Education Entertainment Man Preference
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
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
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 are things I can’t force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
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Adjust Change Force Need Point View
In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
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Necessary Order Shake Willing
Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself to prompting us to great and generous actions?
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Action Direction Generous Object
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
You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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Anand Thakur
I discuss with myself questions of politics, love, taste, or philosophy. I let my mind rove wantonly, give it free rein to followany idea, wise or mad that may present itself. My ideas are my harlots.
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Discussion Love Mad Mindset Myself Politics Present Taste
One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.
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Demand Finding Oneself Seek Truth
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Oneself Path Step
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
For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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Myself Prostitute Thinking
I am wholly yours – you are everything to me; we will sustain each other in all the ills of life it may please fate to inflict upon us; you will soothe my troubles; I will comfort you in yours.
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Each Other Life Trouble Yourself
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Ignorance Prejudice Remote Truth

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