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First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.

Denis Diderot

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
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Bad Country Goodness Government Moral
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Happiness Oneself Passion
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
I am wholly yours – you are everything to me; we will sustain each other in all the ills of life it may please fate to inflict upon us; you will soothe my troubles; I will comfort you in yours.
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Each Other Life Trouble Yourself
There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
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Civilization Inflict Kind Man Society Woman
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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Heart Known Wisdom
When one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz , one is tempted to throw away one’s books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner.
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Compare Corner Forget Talent Temptation
The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
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Anand Thakur
I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.
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Feeling Judgement Thinking
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
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Anand Thakur
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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Anand Thakur
My ideas are my whores.
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Ideas One Liner Whore
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
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Arouse Patriot Society
Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
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Bad Confusion Different Follow Reveal Truth
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Gentle Himself Man Nature

First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.

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