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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

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
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Command Justice Obedience Virtue
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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Anand Thakur
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
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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Association Catch Ourselves Vice
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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Anand Thakur
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
Every man has his dignity. I’m willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
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Dignity Man Myself Willing
Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
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Command Force Obedience Power Violence
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
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
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Step Truth
You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.
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Himself Paint Reveal Writing
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Evidence Integrity Virtue
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Happiness Oneself Passion
The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
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Children Father God Himself

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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