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

Denis Diderot

We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
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Feeling Instrument Memories Object Surround
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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Blood God Myself Sin
If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can’t deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
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Essential Kind Respect Wicked Yourself
The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
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Divorce Improvement Marriage Partner Population Possible
Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
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Command Force Obedience Power Violence
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
My ideas are my whores.
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Ideas One Liner Whore
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
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
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 general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
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Action Allow Freedom Genius Interest Place
Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it.
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Anand Thakur
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Happiness Oneself Passion
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
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
Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.
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Book Greatness Literature Poet Taste

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

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