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

Denis Diderot

Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
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Design Disturb Trouble True
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
There are cats and cats.
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Cat One Liner
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
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
It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
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Desire Fact Production True Willing
You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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Anand Thakur
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
To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.
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Butterfly Color Pen Wings Woman
Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.
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Evil Goodness High Master Writing
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
Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself to prompting us to great and generous actions?
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Action Direction Generous Object
The world is the house of the strong.
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Hard Time Inspirational Strong World
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
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Step Truth
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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Abstract Relationship Sign Study

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