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The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.

Denis Diderot

If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the “enthusiasm for truth and justice” using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.
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Dedication Enthusiasm Goodness Life Sense
The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre
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Anand Thakur
Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
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See Theory World
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
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Bitter Lying Swallow Truth
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
There are things I can’t force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
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Adjust Change Force Need Point View
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
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
Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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Blood God Myself Sin
The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
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Anand Thakur
There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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Happiness Oneself Responsibility
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Ignorance Prejudice Remote Truth
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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Machine Order Ordinary Quality

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