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The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.

Denis Diderot

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
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Action Allow Freedom Genius Interest Place
Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild
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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Divorce Improvement Marriage Partner Population Possible
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
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Arouse Patriot Society
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
The world is the house of the strong.
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Hard Time Inspirational Strong World
When one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz , one is tempted to throw away one’s books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner.
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Compare Corner Forget Talent Temptation
The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
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Adult Eyes Infant Man Old
My ideas are my whores.
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Ideas One Liner Whore
It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.
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Love Rob
In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.
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Anand Thakur
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
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
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Oneself Path Step

The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.

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