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What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.

Denis Diderot

The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre
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Anand Thakur
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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Anand Thakur
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 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
For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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Myself Prostitute Thinking
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
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
The world is the house of the strong.
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Hard Time Inspirational Strong World
Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.
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Fine Himself Live Man Peace Possession Purity Religious
Every man has his dignity. I’m willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
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Dignity Man Myself Willing
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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Philosophy Road
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge, observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
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Combination Experiment Knowledge Principle Reflection Result
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Destroy Passion Philosophy Prejudice
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
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
The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Destroy Man Pronounce

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