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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

Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope
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
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
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
Isn’t it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
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Better Chance Goodness Man
The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre
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Anand Thakur
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
The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.
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Anand Thakur
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can’t deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
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Essential Kind Respect Wicked Yourself
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Evidence Integrity Virtue
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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Association Catch Ourselves Vice
I am wholly yours – you are everything to me; we will sustain each other in all the ills of life it may please fate to inflict upon us; you will soothe my troubles; I will comfort you in yours.
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Each Other Life Trouble Yourself
Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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Admire Distance Greatness Promote
The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
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Anand Thakur
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

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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