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There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.

Denis Diderot

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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Philosophy Road
For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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Myself Prostitute Thinking
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Philosophy Religion Separate
No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.
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Enjoyment Heaven Man Nature Reason Receive
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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Anand Thakur
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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Heart Known Wisdom
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Ignorance Prejudice Remote Truth
What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.
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Comedy Oneself Play World
There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.
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Death Fear Happiness Justice Virtue
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
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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Abstract Relationship Sign Study
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
Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one’s fatherland, which is perishable?
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Enlightenment Father Greatness Oneself Perish Save
The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.
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Anand Thakur
We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
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Bitter Lying Swallow Truth
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

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