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No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.

Denis Diderot

Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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Machine Order Ordinary Quality
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
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Arouse Patriot Society
Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
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See Theory World
My ideas are my whores.
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Ideas One Liner Whore
Only the bad man is alone.
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Alone Bad Man
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Evidence Integrity Virtue
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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Philosophy Road
At an early age I sucked up the milk of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato and Euripides, diluted with that of Moses and the prophets.
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Age Early Milk Myself
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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Anand Thakur
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
Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one’s innocence with the loss of one’s prejudices.
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Bad Company Innocent Instruction Loss One Prejudice
You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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Anand Thakur
Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
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Control Order People Yourself
Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.
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Book Greatness Literature Poet Taste
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive

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