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For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.

Denis Diderot

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception
My ideas are my whores.
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Ideas One Liner Whore
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
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
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Arouse Patriot Society
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Gentle Himself Man Nature
In order to get as much fame as one’s father one has to much more able than he.
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Fame Father Himself Order
One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.
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Demand Finding Oneself Seek Truth
The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
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Adult Eyes Infant Man Old
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope
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
It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties.
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Difficult God Home Raining
There are things I can’t force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
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Adjust Change Force Need Point View
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Oneself Path Step
The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.
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Anand Thakur
The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
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Children Father God Himself

For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.

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