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Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.

Denis Diderot

Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.
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Evil Goodness High Master Writing
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
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Desire Fact Production True Willing
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
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
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Genius Madness Raise Status
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
Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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Admire Distance Greatness Promote
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
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.
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Desire Hope Immortal Myself
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Philosophy Religion Separate
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
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
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
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare

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