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Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

Denis Diderot

All children are essentially criminal.
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Children Crime Essential
Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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Anand Thakur
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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Anand Thakur
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
Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.
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Authority Break Goodness Oneself Privacy
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
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
Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
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Bad Confusion Different Follow Reveal Truth
To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.
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Definition Himself Man Strength Weakness
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
I am wholly yours – you are everything to me; we will sustain each other in all the ills of life it may please fate to inflict upon us; you will soothe my troubles; I will comfort you in yours.
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Each Other Life Trouble Yourself
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
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
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

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