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You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.

Denis Diderot

Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Evil Genius World
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Gentle Himself Man Nature
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
A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.
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Belief Law Myself Nation People Thinking
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
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Civilization Inflict Kind Man Society Woman
The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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Best Doctor Finding Oneself Run
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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Anand Thakur
You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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Anand Thakur
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Expectation Finding Myself Truth
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
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Destroy Passion Philosophy Prejudice
Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.
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Book Greatness Literature Poet Taste
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
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
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

You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.

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