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Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.

Denis Diderot

Only the bad man is alone.
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Alone Bad Man
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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Heart Known Wisdom
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
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Command Justice Obedience Virtue
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
I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.
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Anand Thakur
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.
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Fine Himself Live Man Peace Possession Purity Religious
What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.
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Impartial Path Step Truth
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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Force Memories Ourselves Sentence Truth
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Evidence Integrity Virtue
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge, observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
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Combination Experiment Knowledge Principle Reflection Result
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Philosophy Religion Separate
One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.
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Demand Finding Oneself Seek Truth
Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.
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Build Distance Infinite Mad Plain Separate Tower
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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Anand Thakur

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