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Denis Diderot

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
I am wholly yours – you are everything to me; we will sustain each other in all the ills of life it may please fate to inflict upon us; you will soothe my troubles; I will comfort you in yours.
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Each Other Life Trouble Yourself
You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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Anand Thakur
My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.
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Blow Clear Finding Friendship Way
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
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Happiness Oneself Passion
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
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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Anand Thakur
Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.
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Greatness Mindset Moral Passion Raise Small Soul
I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.
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Anand Thakur
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
It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
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Desire Fact Production True Willing
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Destroy Passion Philosophy Prejudice
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Ignorance Prejudice Remote Truth
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
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
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Creative Experiment Genius Nature Observation
Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it.
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Anand Thakur
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
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
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
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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Philosophy Road
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
There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
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Hard Mad Oneself Suffering
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
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
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

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