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Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.

Denis Diderot

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
There are cats and cats.
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Cat One Liner
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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Anand Thakur
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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Anand Thakur
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Happiness Oneself Passion
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
Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.
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Fine Himself Live Man Peace Possession Purity Religious
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Atheist God Injurious
I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.
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Desire Hope Immortal Myself
Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
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Bad Country Goodness Government Moral
The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.
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Anand Thakur
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
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Command Justice Obedience Virtue
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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Abstract Relationship Sign Study
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
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

Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.

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