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If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.

Denis Diderot

Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
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Beg Compassionate Man Poor Possible Shame
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
DENIS DIDEROT

Poetry Savage Scale
If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the “enthusiasm for truth and justice” using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.
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Dedication Enthusiasm Goodness Life Sense
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Ignorance Prejudice Remote Truth
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Destroy Man Pronounce
Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path
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
Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.
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Animal Guide Instinct Intelligence Reason
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
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See Theory World
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
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur

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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