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What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.

Denis Diderot

You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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Anand Thakur
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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Anand Thakur
Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.
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Authority Break Goodness Oneself Privacy
The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
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Divorce Improvement Marriage Partner Population Possible
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
Every man has his dignity. I’m willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
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Dignity Man Myself Willing
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Happiness Oneself Passion
There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
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Hard Mad Oneself Suffering
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Destroy Passion Philosophy Prejudice
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
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Arouse Patriot Society
We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man’s afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
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Himself Passion Pleasure Source
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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Force Memories Ourselves Sentence Truth
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
In order to get as much fame as one’s father one has to much more able than he.
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Fame Father Himself Order
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
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Children Education Entertainment Man Preference

What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.

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