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

Denis Diderot

What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one’s innocence with the loss of one’s prejudices.
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Bad Company Innocent Instruction Loss One Prejudice
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Destroy Passion Philosophy Prejudice
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
Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
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See Theory World
There are things I can’t force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
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Adjust Change Force Need Point View
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.
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Feeling Judgement Thinking
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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Machine Order Ordinary Quality
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
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
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
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Children Education Entertainment Man Preference
You have to make it happen.
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One Liner Yourself
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

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