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We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.

Denis Diderot

There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
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Civilization Inflict Kind Man Society Woman
The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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Best Doctor Finding Oneself Run
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
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
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
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
People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you’ve got to keep your feet warm.
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Anand Thakur
It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
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Desire Fact Production True Willing
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Philosophy Religion Separate
In order to get as much fame as one’s father one has to much more able than he.
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Fame Father Himself Order
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception
There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
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Hard Mad Oneself Suffering
If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the “enthusiasm for truth and justice” using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.
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Dedication Enthusiasm Goodness Life Sense
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Ignorance Prejudice Remote Truth
One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.
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Demand Finding Oneself Seek Truth
There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.
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Death Fear Happiness Justice Virtue

We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.

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We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.

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