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From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

Denis Diderot

The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre
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Anand Thakur
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Atheist God Injurious
Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale
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
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope
Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
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Control Order People Yourself
Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
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Anand Thakur
There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
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Hard Mad Oneself Suffering
What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.
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Comedy Oneself Play World
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Evidence Integrity Virtue
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
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Philosophy Religion Separate
The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
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Anand Thakur
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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Anand Thakur
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
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Arouse Patriot Society
Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it.
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Anand Thakur

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

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