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All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.

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
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Philosophy Religion Separate
The world is the house of the strong.
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Hard Time Inspirational Strong World
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
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
My ideas are my whores.
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Ideas One Liner Whore
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Evil Genius 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
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
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
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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Heart Known Wisdom
No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.
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Enjoyment Heaven Man Nature Reason Receive
Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
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Destroy Doctor Preserve Success Work
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

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