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The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.

Denis Diderot

We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
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Feeling Instrument Memories Object Surround
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
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
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Philosophy Religion Separate
A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it. Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Evidence Question Truth
My ideas are my whores.
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Ideas One Liner Whore
What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.
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Impartial Path Step Truth
Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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Anand Thakur
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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Association Catch Ourselves Vice
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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Blood God Myself Sin
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.
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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
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.
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Difficult God Home Raining
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
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild

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