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In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.

Denis Diderot

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.
DENIS DIDEROT

Essential Kind Respect Wicked 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
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
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Divorce Improvement Marriage Partner Population Possible
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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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
There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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Happiness Oneself Responsibility
Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself to prompting us to great and generous actions?
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Action Direction Generous Object
How easy it is to tell tales!
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Easy Story
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.
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Anand Thakur
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception
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
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
When one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz , one is tempted to throw away one’s books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner.
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Compare Corner Forget Talent Temptation

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