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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Denis Diderot

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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Anand Thakur
The wisest among us is very lucky never to have met the woman, be she beautiful or ugly, intelligent or stupid, who could drive him crazy enough to be fit to be put into an asylum.
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Beautiful Crazy Drive Enough Wisdom Woman
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Destroy Passion Philosophy Prejudice
Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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Anand Thakur
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
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Adult Eyes Infant Man Old
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
Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
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Bad Confusion Different Follow Reveal Truth
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception
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
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
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Beg Compassionate Man Poor Possible Shame
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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Believe God Himself Touch
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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Anand Thakur
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope

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