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The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre

Denis Diderot

There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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Happiness Oneself Responsibility
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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Philosophy Road
People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you’ve got to keep your feet warm.
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Anand Thakur
When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
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Allow Music Painting Performance Poetry Superstitious
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
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
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.
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Butterfly Color Pen Wings Woman
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
You have to make it happen.
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One Liner Yourself
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
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
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

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