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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Denis Diderot

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
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Philosophy Religion Separate
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
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Desire Fact Production True Willing
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
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
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
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
There are cats and cats.
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Cat One Liner
Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale
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
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Expectation Finding Myself Truth
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception
A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it. Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Evidence Question Truth
I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.
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Desire Hope Immortal Myself
To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.
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Definition Himself Man Strength Weakness

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