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Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

Denis Diderot

Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.
DENIS DIDEROT

Greatness Mindset Moral Passion Raise Small Soul
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
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Destroy Man Pronounce
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
If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the “enthusiasm for truth and justice” using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.
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Dedication Enthusiasm Goodness Life Sense
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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Adult Eyes Infant Man Old
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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Philosophy Road
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Gentle Himself Man Nature
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
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Anand Thakur
Only the bad man is alone.
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Alone Bad Man
I discuss with myself questions of politics, love, taste, or philosophy. I let my mind rove wantonly, give it free rein to followany idea, wise or mad that may present itself. My ideas are my harlots.
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Discussion Love Mad Mindset Myself Politics Present Taste
It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
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Believe God Important
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Destroy Passion Philosophy Prejudice
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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Force Memories Ourselves Sentence Truth

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