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Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.

Denis Diderot

Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Atheist God Injurious
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
My ideas are my whores.
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Ideas One Liner Whore
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
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
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
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Destroy Passion Philosophy Prejudice
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Evidence Integrity Virtue
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
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 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
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
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
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
There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.
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Death Fear Happiness Justice Virtue
In order to get as much fame as one’s father one has to much more able than he.
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Fame Father Himself Order
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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Anand Thakur
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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Belief Law Myself Nation People Thinking
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
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Happiness Oneself Passion
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre
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Anand Thakur
Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope
There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
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Civilization Inflict Kind Man Society Woman
Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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Admire Distance Greatness Promote

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