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

Denis Diderot

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
The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
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Anand Thakur
A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it. Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Evidence Question Truth
I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.
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Desire Hope Immortal Myself
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Expectation Finding Myself Truth
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.
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Demand Finding Oneself Seek 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
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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Association Catch Ourselves Vice
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
All children are essentially criminal.
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Children Crime Essential
In order to get as much fame as one’s father one has to much more able than he.
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Fame Father Himself Order
Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself to prompting us to great and generous actions?
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Action Direction Generous Object
Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.
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Evil Goodness High Master Writing
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

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

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