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

Denis Diderot

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
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
Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
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Design Disturb Trouble True
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
To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.
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Butterfly Color Pen Wings Woman
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Children Education Entertainment Man Preference
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
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Step Truth
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
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Creative Experiment Genius Nature Observation
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
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild
In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
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Necessary Order Shake Willing
Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one’s fatherland, which is perishable?
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Enlightenment Father Greatness Oneself Perish Save
If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.
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Anand Thakur
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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Believe God Himself Touch

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

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