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There is only one duty; that is to be happy.

Denis Diderot

One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
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
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
Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.
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Greatness Mindset Moral Passion Raise Small Soul
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
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Evidence Integrity Virtue
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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Blood God Myself Sin
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
The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
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Adult Eyes Infant Man Old
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
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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Believe God Himself Touch
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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Association Catch Ourselves Vice
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
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
In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
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Necessary Order Shake Willing

There is only one duty; that is to be happy.

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