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

Denis Diderot

There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
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Hard Mad Oneself Suffering
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Step Truth
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope
There are cats and cats.
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Cat One Liner
My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.
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Blow Clear Finding Friendship Way
Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
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Command Force Obedience Power Violence
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
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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Association Catch Ourselves Vice
Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one’s fatherland, which is perishable?
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Enlightenment Father Greatness Oneself Perish Save
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
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Ignorance Prejudice Remote Truth
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.
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Greatness Mindset Moral Passion Raise Small Soul
There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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Happiness Oneself Responsibility
Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: ‘My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.’ This stranger is a theologian.
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Finding Forest Night Order Stranger Wander Yourself
I am wholly yours – you are everything to me; we will sustain each other in all the ills of life it may please fate to inflict upon us; you will soothe my troubles; I will comfort you in yours.
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Each Other Life Trouble Yourself

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