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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

Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope
Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
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Command Force Obedience Power Violence
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
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Evidence Integrity Virtue
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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Anand Thakur
Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
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See Theory World
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Destroy Passion Philosophy Prejudice
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
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 best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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Best Doctor Finding Oneself Run
If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the “enthusiasm for truth and justice” using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.
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Dedication Enthusiasm Goodness Life Sense
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
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Step Truth
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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Association Catch Ourselves Vice
For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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Myself Prostitute Thinking

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