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In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.

Denis Diderot

Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Destroy Passion Philosophy Prejudice
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Children Education Entertainment Man Preference
Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself to prompting us to great and generous actions?
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Action Direction Generous Object
There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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Anand Thakur
All children are essentially criminal.
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Children Crime Essential
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge, observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
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Combination Experiment Knowledge Principle Reflection Result
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
Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
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Beg Compassionate Man Poor Possible Shame
The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
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Children Father God Himself
First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.
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Astonishment Eyes Move Myself
We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man’s afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
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Himself Passion Pleasure Source
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Ignorance Prejudice Remote Truth
It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.
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Love Rob
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
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Anand Thakur
A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it. Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Evidence Question Truth

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