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

Denis Diderot

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge, observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
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Combination Experiment Knowledge Principle Reflection Result
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Evil Genius World
All children are essentially criminal.
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Children Crime Essential
There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.
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Death Fear Happiness Justice Virtue
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
There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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Anand Thakur
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Happiness Oneself Passion
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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Delight Move Surprise Yourself
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
The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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Best Doctor Finding Oneself Run
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
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Command Justice Obedience Virtue
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Children Education Entertainment Man Preference
Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
My ideas are my whores.
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Ideas One Liner Whore

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