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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.

Denis Diderot

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
In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.
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Anand Thakur
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Destroy Passion Philosophy Prejudice
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Expectation Finding Myself Truth
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
All children are essentially criminal.
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Children Crime Essential
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
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Command Justice Obedience Virtue
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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Admire Distance Greatness Promote
If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the “enthusiasm for truth and justice” using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.
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Dedication Enthusiasm Goodness Life Sense
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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Abstract Relationship Sign Study
Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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Anand Thakur
Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.
DENIS DIDEROT

Evil Goodness High Master Writing
I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur

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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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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