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My ideas are my whores.

Denis Diderot

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
It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.
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Love Rob
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Atheist God Injurious
My ideas are my whores.
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Ideas One Liner Whore
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.
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Anand Thakur
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Evidence Integrity Virtue
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Ignorance Prejudice Remote Truth
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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Anand Thakur
First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.
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Astonishment Eyes Move Myself
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
Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
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Genius Madness Raise Status
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
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
You have to make it happen.
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One Liner Yourself
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

My ideas are my whores.

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