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One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.

Denis Diderot

No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.
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Enjoyment Heaven Man Nature Reason Receive
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
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Allow Music Painting Performance Poetry Superstitious
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope
I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.
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Anand Thakur
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
How easy it is to tell tales!
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Easy Story
Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.
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Evil Goodness High Master Writing
First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.
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Delight Move Surprise Yourself
The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
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Divorce Improvement Marriage Partner Population Possible
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Children Education Entertainment Man Preference
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
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Genius Madness Raise Status
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
For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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Myself Prostitute Thinking
One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.
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Demand Finding Oneself Seek Truth

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