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If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the “enthusiasm for truth and justice” using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.

Denis Diderot

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
You have to make it happen.
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One Liner Yourself
The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.
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Creation Dangerous Mad Man Occasion Religion
There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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Happiness Oneself Responsibility
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
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
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
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
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Evil Genius World
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Destroy Passion Philosophy Prejudice
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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Anand Thakur
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
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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Anand Thakur
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Philosophy Religion Separate

If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the “enthusiasm for truth and justice” using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.

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If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the “enthusiasm for truth and justice” using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.

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