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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.

Denis Diderot

If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can’t deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
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Essential Kind Respect Wicked Yourself
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
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope
You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.
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Himself Paint Reveal Writing
I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.
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Feeling Judgement Thinking
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
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
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
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Children Education Entertainment Man Preference
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
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Creative Experiment Genius Nature Observation
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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Heart Known Wisdom
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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Blood God Myself Sin
Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale
The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
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Divorce Improvement Marriage Partner Population Possible
The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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Best Doctor Finding Oneself Run
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive

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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