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Denis Diderot

The world is the house of the strong.
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Hard Time Inspirational Strong 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
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
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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Association Catch Ourselves Vice
Only the bad man is alone.
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Alone Bad Man
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
The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre
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Anand Thakur
Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.
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Animal Guide Instinct Intelligence Reason
What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.
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Impartial Path Step Truth
For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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Myself Prostitute Thinking
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
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Command Justice Obedience Virtue
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Children Education Entertainment Man Preference
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
One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.
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Demand Finding Oneself Seek Truth

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