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Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

Denis Diderot

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
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.
DENIS DIDEROT

Age Early Milk Myself
To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.
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Butterfly Color Pen Wings Woman
To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.
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Definition Himself Man Strength Weakness
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
If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.
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Anand Thakur
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Atheist God Injurious
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
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
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Necessary Order Shake Willing
The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.
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Creation Dangerous Mad Man Occasion Religion
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
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild
Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.
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Evil Goodness High Master Writing
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Evidence Integrity Virtue

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