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From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

Denis Diderot

When one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz , one is tempted to throw away one’s books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner.
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Compare Corner Forget Talent Temptation
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
How easy it is to tell tales!
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Easy Story
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
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
Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one’s fatherland, which is perishable?
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Enlightenment Father Greatness Oneself Perish Save
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
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Atheist God Injurious
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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Anand Thakur
If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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Beautiful Color Disturb Rainbow
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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Heart Known Wisdom
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man’s afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
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Himself Passion Pleasure Source
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Oneself Path Step

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