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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.

Denis Diderot

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Oneself Path Step
Isn’t it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
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Better Chance Goodness Man
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Ignorance Prejudice Remote Truth
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
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Arouse Patriot Society
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
Every man has his dignity. I’m willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
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Dignity Man Myself Willing
The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Destroy Man Pronounce
At an early age I sucked up the milk of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato and Euripides, diluted with that of Moses and the prophets.
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Age Early Milk Myself
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Philosophy Religion Separate
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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Machine Order Ordinary Quality
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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Anand Thakur
In order to get as much fame as one’s father one has to much more able than he.
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Fame Father Himself Order
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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Bad Confusion Different Follow Reveal Truth
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive

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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