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Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.

Denis Diderot

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
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
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
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Happiness Oneself Passion
Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale
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 is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties.
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Difficult God Home Raining
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Evil Genius World
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception
First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.
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Astonishment Eyes Move Myself
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
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
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
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Anand Thakur
Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.
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Evil Goodness High Master Writing
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
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Children Father God Himself
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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Heart Known Wisdom
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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Abstract Relationship Sign Study
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
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
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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Machine Order Ordinary Quality
Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
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Destroy Doctor Preserve Success Work
How easy it is to tell tales!
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Easy Story
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
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
There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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Happiness Oneself Responsibility

Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.

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