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Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.

Denis Diderot

One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope
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
A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.
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Belief Law Myself Nation People Thinking
Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale
There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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Happiness Oneself Responsibility
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
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
The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Destroy Man Pronounce
There are cats and cats.
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Cat One Liner
Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path
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
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
People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you’ve got to keep your feet warm.
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Anand Thakur
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
There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
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Hard Mad Oneself Suffering

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