Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
DENIS DIDEROT
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Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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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.
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There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.
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The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Whatever dressing one gives to mushrooms, to whatever sauces our Apiciuses put them, they are not really good but to be sent back to the dungheap where they are born.
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Only the bad man is alone.
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One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.
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The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
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What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.
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People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you’ve got to keep your feet warm.
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Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
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From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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