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The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.

Denis Diderot

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild
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
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
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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Heart Known Wisdom
Isn’t it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
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Better Chance Goodness Man
All children are essentially criminal.
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Children Crime Essential
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
Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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Admire Distance Greatness Promote
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
Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
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Control Order People Yourself
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
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
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
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Creative Experiment Genius Nature Observation
The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
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Children Father God Himself
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Evil Genius World

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