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There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

Denis Diderot

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 like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.
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Anand Thakur
Only the bad man is alone.
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Alone Bad Man
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Gentle Himself Man Nature
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
Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
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Anand Thakur
Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.
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Book Greatness Literature Poet Taste
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
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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Abstract Relationship Sign Study
There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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Anand Thakur
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Expectation Finding Myself Truth
What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.
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Comedy Oneself Play World
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 Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
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Anand Thakur
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Children Education Entertainment Man Preference

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

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