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Denis Diderot

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Happiness Oneself Passion
For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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Myself Prostitute Thinking
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
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
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
If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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Beautiful Color Disturb Rainbow
It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties.
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Difficult God Home Raining
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
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
Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
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Bad Country Goodness Government Moral
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
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Anand Thakur
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
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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Abstract Relationship Sign Study
The world is the house of the strong.
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Hard Time Inspirational Strong World
If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can’t deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
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Essential Kind Respect Wicked Yourself
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception

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