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The world is the house of the strong.

Denis Diderot

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
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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Anand Thakur
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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Anand Thakur
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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Abstract Relationship Sign Study
How easy it is to tell tales!
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Easy Story
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
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
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
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.
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Anand Thakur
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
We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
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Feeling Instrument Memories Object Surround
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
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Arouse Patriot Society
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Evil Genius World

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