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Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

Denis Diderot

It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
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Believe God Important
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
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.
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Greatness Mindset Moral Passion Raise Small Soul
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
There are cats and cats.
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Cat One Liner
For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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Myself Prostitute Thinking
The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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Best Doctor Finding Oneself Run
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
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Evil Genius World
Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
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Bad Country Goodness Government Moral
All children are essentially criminal.
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Children Crime Essential
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
We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
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Feeling Instrument Memories Object Surround
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild
Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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Anand Thakur

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

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