Good music is very close to primitive language.
From Denis Diderot
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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.
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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