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All children are essentially criminal.

Denis Diderot

It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.
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Love Rob
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Philosophy Religion Separate
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Children Education Entertainment Man Preference
There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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Happiness Oneself Responsibility
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Ignorance Prejudice Remote Truth
When one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz , one is tempted to throw away one’s books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner.
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Compare Corner Forget Talent Temptation
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
In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.
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Anand Thakur
A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it. Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Evidence Question Truth
Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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Admire Distance Greatness Promote
The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
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Adult Eyes Infant Man Old
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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Anand Thakur
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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Believe God Himself Touch
Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.
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Book Greatness Literature Poet Taste
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

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