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We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.

Denis Diderot

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
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Anand Thakur
Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
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Beg Compassionate Man Poor Possible Shame
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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Philosophy Road
We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man’s afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
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Himself Passion Pleasure Source
Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
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Bad Confusion Different Follow Reveal Truth
Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself to prompting us to great and generous actions?
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Action Direction Generous Object
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
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
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
There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.
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Death Fear Happiness Justice Virtue
The wisest among us is very lucky never to have met the woman, be she beautiful or ugly, intelligent or stupid, who could drive him crazy enough to be fit to be put into an asylum.
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Beautiful Crazy Drive Enough Wisdom Woman
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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Abstract Relationship Sign Study
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
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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Animal Guide Instinct Intelligence Reason
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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Anand Thakur

We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.

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