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Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

Denis Diderot

The wisest among us is very lucky never to have met the woman, be she beautiful or ugly, intelligent or stupid, who could drive him crazy enough to be fit to be put into an asylum.
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Beautiful Crazy Drive Enough Wisdom Woman
First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.
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Delight Move Surprise Yourself
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
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Arouse Patriot Society
Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: ‘My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.’ This stranger is a theologian.
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Finding Forest Night Order Stranger Wander Yourself
Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.
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Evil Goodness High Master Writing
The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
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Anand Thakur
If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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Beautiful Color Disturb Rainbow
Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it.
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Anand Thakur
All children are essentially criminal.
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Children Crime Essential
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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Blood God Myself Sin
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge, observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
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Combination Experiment Knowledge Principle Reflection Result
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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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
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Happiness Oneself Passion
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

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