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First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.

Denis Diderot

In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Children Education Entertainment Man Preference
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Ignorance Prejudice Remote Truth
Only the bad man is alone.
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Alone Bad Man
No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.
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Enjoyment Heaven Man Nature Reason Receive
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
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Anand Thakur
Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.
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Authority Break Goodness Oneself Privacy
It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
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Believe God Important
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
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Arouse Patriot Society
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception
The world is the house of the strong.
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Hard Time Inspirational Strong World
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
Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
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Beg Compassionate Man Poor Possible Shame
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild
Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
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Control Order People Yourself
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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Believe God Himself Touch
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

First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.

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