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It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.

Denis Diderot

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
Only the bad man is alone.
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Alone Bad Man
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Step Truth
To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.
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Definition Himself Man Strength Weakness
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
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
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
The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.
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Creation Dangerous Mad Man Occasion Religion
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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Abstract Relationship Sign Study
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Happiness Oneself Passion
We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
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Bitter Lying Swallow Truth
Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
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Bad Country Goodness Government Moral
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
Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.
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Evil Goodness High Master Writing
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception
The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
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Action Allow Freedom Genius Interest Place

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