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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

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
The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
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Anand Thakur
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Evil Genius World
Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.
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Greatness Mindset Moral Passion Raise Small Soul
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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Heart Known Wisdom
Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
I discuss with myself questions of politics, love, taste, or philosophy. I let my mind rove wantonly, give it free rein to followany idea, wise or mad that may present itself. My ideas are my harlots.
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Discussion Love Mad Mindset Myself Politics Present Taste
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
The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Destroy Man Pronounce
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
If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.
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Anand Thakur
My ideas are my whores.
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Ideas One Liner Whore
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Destroy Passion Philosophy Prejudice
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
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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Force Memories Ourselves Sentence Truth

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