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“It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.”

Denis Diderot · Nature

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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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Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

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The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.

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The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.

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