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I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.

Denis Diderot

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
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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Force Memories Ourselves Sentence Truth
Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
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Genius Madness Raise Status
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
There are cats and cats.
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Cat One Liner
It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
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Believe God Important
If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.
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Anand Thakur
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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Machine Order Ordinary Quality
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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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
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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Authority Break Goodness Oneself Privacy
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
Isn’t it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
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Better Chance Goodness Man
Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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Anand Thakur
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
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

I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.

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