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Distance is a great promoter of admiration.

Denis Diderot

The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it. Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Evidence Question Truth
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
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Arouse Patriot Society
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
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
Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
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See Theory World
Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
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Command Force Obedience Power Violence
What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.
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Impartial Path Step Truth
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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Anand Thakur
Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one’s innocence with the loss of one’s prejudices.
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Bad Company Innocent Instruction Loss One Prejudice
All children are essentially criminal.
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Children Crime Essential
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Expectation Finding Myself Truth
We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
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Bitter Lying Swallow Truth
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
My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.
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Blow Clear Finding Friendship Way
You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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Anand Thakur

Distance is a great promoter of admiration.

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