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People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you’ve got to keep your feet warm.

Denis Diderot

The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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Anand Thakur
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
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Expectation Finding Myself Truth
The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
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Adult Eyes Infant Man Old
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception
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
The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Destroy Man Pronounce
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
All children are essentially criminal.
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Children Crime Essential
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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Believe God Himself Touch
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
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Anand Thakur
The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.
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Anand Thakur
I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.
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Desire Hope Immortal Myself
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

People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you’ve got to keep your feet warm.

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People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you’ve got to keep your feet warm.

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