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There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.

Denis Diderot

Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Evil Genius World
Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
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Destroy Doctor Preserve Success Work
Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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Admire Distance Greatness Promote
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Oneself Path Step
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.
DENIS DIDEROT

Feeling Judgement Thinking
The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
DENIS DIDEROT

Destroy Man Pronounce
In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
You have to make it happen.
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One Liner Yourself
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
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
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
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
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
The world is the house of the strong.
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Hard Time Inspirational Strong World
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
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.
DENIS DIDEROT

Allow Music Painting Performance Poetry Superstitious
You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.
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Himself Paint Reveal Writing
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
It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties.
DENIS DIDEROT

Difficult God Home Raining
The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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Best Doctor Finding Oneself Run
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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Believe God Himself Touch
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
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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Anand Thakur
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.
DENIS DIDEROT

Compare Corner Forget Talent Temptation

There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.

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