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Denis Diderot

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
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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Anand Thakur
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Evidence Integrity Virtue
I discuss with myself questions of politics, love, taste, or philosophy. I let my mind rove wantonly, give it free rein to followany idea, wise or mad that may present itself. My ideas are my harlots.
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Discussion Love Mad Mindset Myself Politics Present Taste
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Evil Genius World
The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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Best Doctor Finding Oneself Run
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
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
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
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
Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself to prompting us to great and generous actions?
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Action Direction Generous Object
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Children Education Entertainment Man Preference
If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.
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Anand Thakur
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
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Anand Thakur
You have to make it happen.
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One Liner Yourself
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Destroy Passion Philosophy Prejudice

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