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Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.

Denis Diderot

How easy it is to tell tales!
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Easy Story
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
The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
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Anand Thakur
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
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.
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Animal Guide Instinct Intelligence Reason
There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.
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Death Fear Happiness Justice Virtue
You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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Anand Thakur
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Gentle Himself Man Nature
All children are essentially criminal.
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Children Crime Essential
I discuss with myself questions of politics, love, taste, or philosophy. I let my mind rove wantonly, give it free rein to followany idea, wise or mad that may present itself. My ideas are my harlots.
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Discussion Love Mad Mindset Myself Politics Present Taste
Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale
In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
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Necessary Order Shake Willing
Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
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Control Order People Yourself
There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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Anand Thakur

Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.

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