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The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.

Denis Diderot

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
The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
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Anand Thakur
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
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
The world is the house of the strong.
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Hard Time Inspirational Strong World
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Step Truth
Only the bad man is alone.
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Alone Bad Man
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Evil Genius World
Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it.
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Anand Thakur
To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.
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Butterfly Color Pen Wings Woman
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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Association Catch Ourselves Vice
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
We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man’s afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
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Himself Passion Pleasure Source

The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.

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