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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

Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.
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Evil Goodness High Master Writing
Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path
Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.
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Build Distance Infinite Mad Plain Separate Tower
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
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Anand Thakur
Whatever dressing one gives to mushrooms, to whatever sauces our Apiciuses put them, they are not really good but to be sent back to the dungheap where they are born.
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Anand Thakur
We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
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Feeling Instrument Memories Object Surround
Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
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Bad Confusion Different Follow Reveal Truth
Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.
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Book Greatness Literature Poet Taste
I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.
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Feeling Judgement Thinking
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
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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Anand Thakur
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Evidence Integrity Virtue
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
The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.
DENIS DIDEROT

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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