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The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.

Denis Diderot

Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Ignorance Prejudice Remote Truth
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
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Beg Compassionate Man Poor Possible Shame
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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Blood God Myself Sin
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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Anand Thakur
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Evidence Integrity Virtue
We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man’s afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
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Himself Passion Pleasure Source
What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.
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Impartial Path Step Truth
In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
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Necessary Order Shake 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
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
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
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Arouse Patriot Society
Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.
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Authority Break Goodness Oneself Privacy

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