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Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one’s innocence with the loss of one’s prejudices.

Denis Diderot

Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Evil Genius World
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
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
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 best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
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
The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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Best Doctor Finding Oneself Run
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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Abstract Relationship Sign Study
For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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Myself Prostitute Thinking
If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the “enthusiasm for truth and justice” using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.
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Dedication Enthusiasm Goodness Life Sense
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Happiness Oneself Passion
In order to get as much fame as one’s father one has to much more able than he.
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Fame Father Himself Order
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Atheist God Injurious
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 pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
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Anand Thakur
If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can’t deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
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Essential Kind Respect Wicked Yourself

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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