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Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

Denis Diderot

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
The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre
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Anand Thakur
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Oneself Path Step
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
If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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Beautiful Color Disturb Rainbow
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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Abstract Relationship Sign Study
There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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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
In order to get as much fame as one’s father one has to much more able than he.
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Fame Father Himself Order
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
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
Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale
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
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
My ideas are my whores.
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Ideas One Liner Whore
I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.
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Feeling Judgement Thinking

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

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Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

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