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No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.

Denis Diderot

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
First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.
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Delight Move Surprise Yourself
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
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
There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
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Hard Mad Oneself Suffering
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
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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Association Catch Ourselves Vice
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
In order to get as much fame as one’s father one has to much more able than he.
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Fame Father Himself Order
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Happiness Oneself Passion
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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Anand Thakur
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
The world is the house of the strong.
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Hard Time Inspirational Strong World
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Evidence Integrity Virtue
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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Anand Thakur

No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.

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