The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.
DENIS DIDEROT
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The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.
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There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
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Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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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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Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
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Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.
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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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Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
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Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.
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