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What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.

Denis Diderot

Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Evil Genius World
No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.
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Enjoyment Heaven Man Nature Reason Receive
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
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
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
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Action Allow Freedom Genius Interest Place
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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Abstract Relationship Sign Study
You have to make it happen.
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One Liner Yourself
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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Blood God Myself Sin
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Gentle Himself Man Nature
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
Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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Admire Distance Greatness Promote
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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Association Catch Ourselves Vice
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Evidence Integrity Virtue
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul

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