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The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.

Denis Diderot

The world is the house of the strong.
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Hard Time Inspirational Strong World
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
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Creative Experiment Genius Nature Observation
Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale
There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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Happiness Oneself Responsibility
Isn’t it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
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Better Chance Goodness Man
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
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
Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
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Anand Thakur
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
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception
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
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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Blood God Myself Sin

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