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All children are essentially criminal.

Denis Diderot

Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception
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
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Destroy Passion Philosophy Prejudice
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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Anand Thakur
All children are essentially criminal.
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Children Crime Essential
The world is the house of the strong.
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Hard Time Inspirational Strong World
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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Philosophy Road
The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
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Children Father God Himself
Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.
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Authority Break Goodness Oneself Privacy
The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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Best Doctor Finding Oneself Run
Only the bad man is alone.
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Alone Bad Man
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Evil Genius World
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
There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.
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Death Fear Happiness Justice Virtue
You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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Anand Thakur

All children are essentially criminal.

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