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What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.

Denis Diderot

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
It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties.
DENIS DIDEROT

Difficult God Home Raining
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
The world is the house of the strong.
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Hard Time Inspirational Strong World
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
We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man’s afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
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Himself Passion Pleasure Source
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
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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Anand Thakur
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
My ideas are my whores.
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Ideas One Liner Whore
There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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Anand Thakur
All children are essentially criminal.
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Children Crime Essential
Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.
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Animal Guide Instinct Intelligence Reason
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Expectation Finding Myself Truth
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
There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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Happiness Oneself Responsibility

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