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One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.

Denis Diderot

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception
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
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Children Education Entertainment Man Preference
No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.
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Enjoyment Heaven Man Nature Reason Receive
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
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Destroy Passion Philosophy Prejudice
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
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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Anand Thakur
We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
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Bitter Lying Swallow Truth
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.
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Belief Law Myself Nation People Thinking
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
Whatever dressing one gives to mushrooms, to whatever sauces our Apiciuses put them, they are not really good but to be sent back to the dungheap where they are born.
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Anand Thakur
Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
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Command Force Obedience Power Violence
Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
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Anand Thakur

One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.

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