The following general definition of an animal a system of different organic molecules that have combined with one another, under the impulsion of a sensation similar to an obtuse and muffled sense of touch given to them by the creator of matter as a whole, until each one of them has found the most suitable position for its shape and comfort.
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To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!Denis Diderot
One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
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We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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it is the chief business of art to touch and to move and to do this by getting close to 'nature.'
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Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
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The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
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