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Letter "D" » debaucheries
«Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended a»
Author: John Herschel
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Dancing
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associated, closely, cultivated, debaucheries, debauchery, recommended, riot, sakes
«True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself; hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
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Debauchery
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«People who indulge in the acts of deception and debauchery are devoid of success. »
«We should abstain from violence, debauchery, evil deeds, sensual-attachment, hatred, anger and ego. »
«When all is equally agitated, nothing appears to be agitated, as in a ship. When all tend to debauchery, none appears to do so. He who stops draws attention to the excess of others, like a fixed point.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
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agitate, agitated, agitates, agitating, debaucheries, debauchery, draws, fixed point
«I cannot be a materialist -- but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and White chapel cursing to a filthy debauchery -- such suffering, such dreadful suffering -- and shall the»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Belief
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cursing, debaucheries, debauchery, vicious
«To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.»
«We are all convention; convention carries us away, and we neglect the substance of things. . . / We dare not call our parts by their right names, but are not afraid to use them for every sort of debauchery.»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
convention, debaucheries, debauchery, neglect, substance
«Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
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