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

Denis Diderot

There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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Anand Thakur
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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Association Catch Ourselves Vice
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
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
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
I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
I discuss with myself questions of politics, love, taste, or philosophy. I let my mind rove wantonly, give it free rein to followany idea, wise or mad that may present itself. My ideas are my harlots.
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Discussion Love Mad Mindset Myself Politics Present Taste
You have to make it happen.
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One Liner Yourself
There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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Happiness Oneself Responsibility
The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
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Action Allow Freedom Genius Interest Place
You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.
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Animal Guide Instinct Intelligence Reason
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
Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one’s innocence with the loss of one’s prejudices.
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Bad Company Innocent Instruction Loss One Prejudice
A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.
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Belief Law Myself Nation People Thinking
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

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

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