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It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.

Denis Diderot

Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
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Destroy Doctor Preserve Success Work
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Gentle Himself Man Nature
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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Machine Order Ordinary Quality
You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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Anand Thakur
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
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Happiness Oneself Passion
Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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Anand Thakur
There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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Anand Thakur
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception
Isn’t it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
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Better Chance Goodness Man
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
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
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
It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties.
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Difficult God Home Raining
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth

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