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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Denis Diderot

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
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Anand Thakur
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
Whatever dressing one gives to mushrooms, to whatever sauces our Apiciuses put them, they are not really good but to be sent back to the dungheap where they are born.
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Anand Thakur
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Atheist God Injurious
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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Anand Thakur
If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.
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Anand Thakur
We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
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Bitter Lying Swallow Truth
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
Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
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Design Disturb Trouble True
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
DENIS DIDEROT

Happiness Oneself Passion
Every man has his dignity. I’m willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
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Dignity Man Myself Willing
When one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz , one is tempted to throw away one’s books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner.
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Compare Corner Forget Talent Temptation
My ideas are my whores.
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Ideas One Liner Whore
Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one’s fatherland, which is perishable?
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Enlightenment Father Greatness Oneself Perish Save
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Destroy Passion Philosophy Prejudice

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

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