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There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.

Denis Diderot

Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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Admire Distance Greatness Promote
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
DENIS DIDEROT

Arouse Patriot Society
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
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 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
No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.
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Enjoyment Heaven Man Nature Reason Receive
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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Abstract Relationship Sign Study
At an early age I sucked up the milk of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato and Euripides, diluted with that of Moses and the prophets.
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Age Early Milk Myself
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
I am wholly yours – you are everything to me; we will sustain each other in all the ills of life it may please fate to inflict upon us; you will soothe my troubles; I will comfort you in yours.
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Each Other Life Trouble Yourself
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
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
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Destroy Passion Philosophy Prejudice
There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale

There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.

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