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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

To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.
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Definition Himself Man Strength Weakness
Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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Philosophy Road
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception
There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
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
There are cats and cats.
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Cat One Liner
A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it. Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Evidence Question Truth
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
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope

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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