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Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.

Denis Diderot

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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Anand Thakur
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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Force Memories Ourselves Sentence Truth
You have to make it happen.
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One Liner Yourself
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 most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.
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Creation Dangerous Mad Man Occasion Religion
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Evidence Integrity Virtue
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
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
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
What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.
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Comedy Oneself Play World
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Children Education Entertainment Man Preference
Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: ‘My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.’ This stranger is a theologian.
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Finding Forest Night Order Stranger Wander Yourself
When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
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Allow Music Painting Performance Poetry Superstitious
All children are essentially criminal.
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Children Crime Essential
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Gentle Himself Man Nature
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

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