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It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

Denis Diderot

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
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
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
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Atheist God Injurious
In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
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Necessary Order Shake Willing
The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
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Anand Thakur
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception
All children are essentially criminal.
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Children Crime Essential
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
Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
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Design Disturb Trouble True
We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
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Bitter Lying Swallow Truth
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
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
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Command Justice Obedience Virtue
What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.
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Comedy Oneself Play World
I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.
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Feeling Judgement Thinking
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

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

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