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Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.

Denis Diderot

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 best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.
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Book Greatness Literature Poet Taste
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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Anand Thakur
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
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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Machine Order Ordinary Quality
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
You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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Anand Thakur
It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.
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Love Rob
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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Anand Thakur
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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Heart Known Wisdom
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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Anand Thakur
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
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Children Education Entertainment Man Preference
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
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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Force Memories Ourselves Sentence Truth

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