"Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory."
-Denis Diderot
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"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.“
-Denis Diderot
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"We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter."
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"Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it."
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"Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs."
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"When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years."
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