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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.

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
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
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Arouse Patriot Society
All children are essentially criminal.
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Children Crime Essential
The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Destroy Man Pronounce
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
You have to make it happen.
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One Liner Yourself
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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Anand Thakur
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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Design Disturb Trouble True
We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
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Bitter Lying Swallow Truth
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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Anand Thakur
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
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
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Anand Thakur
There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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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
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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Association Catch Ourselves Vice
If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.
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Anand Thakur

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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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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