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In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.

Denis Diderot

Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Evil Genius World
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Gentle Himself Man Nature
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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Anand Thakur
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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Heart Known Wisdom
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception
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
When one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz , one is tempted to throw away one’s books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner.
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Compare Corner Forget Talent Temptation
Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
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Destroy Doctor Preserve Success Work
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
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge, observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
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Combination Experiment Knowledge Principle Reflection Result
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
If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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Beautiful Color Disturb Rainbow
First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.
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Astonishment Eyes Move Myself

In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.

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In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.

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