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All children are essentially criminal.

Denis Diderot

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
My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.
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Blow Clear Finding Friendship Way
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
We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man’s afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
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Himself Passion Pleasure Source
I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.
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Anand Thakur
It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties.
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Difficult God Home Raining
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
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
Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.
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Build Distance Infinite Mad Plain Separate Tower
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Philosophy Religion Separate
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Happiness Oneself Passion
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
Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
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Destroy Doctor Preserve Success Work
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Atheist God Injurious
Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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Admire Distance Greatness Promote

All children are essentially criminal.

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