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Distance is a great promoter of admiration.

Denis Diderot

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
The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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Best Doctor Finding Oneself Run
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
The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.
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Creation Dangerous Mad Man Occasion Religion
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
First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.
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Delight Move Surprise Yourself
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Oneself Path Step
Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
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Beg Compassionate Man Poor Possible Shame
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Children Education Entertainment Man Preference
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Evidence Integrity Virtue
Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
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Genius Madness Raise Status
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.
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Himself Paint Reveal Writing
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

Distance is a great promoter of admiration.

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