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For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.

Denis Diderot

I am wholly yours – you are everything to me; we will sustain each other in all the ills of life it may please fate to inflict upon us; you will soothe my troubles; I will comfort you in yours.
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Each Other Life Trouble Yourself
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
Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one’s innocence with the loss of one’s prejudices.
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Bad Company Innocent Instruction Loss One Prejudice
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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Anand Thakur
The world is the house of the strong.
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Hard Time Inspirational Strong World
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
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
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
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Feeling Instrument Memories Object Surround
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
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Arouse Patriot Society
Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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Anand Thakur
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
There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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Anand Thakur
We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man’s afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
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Himself Passion Pleasure Source
The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Destroy Man Pronounce

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