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Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.

Denis Diderot

Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.
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Greatness Mindset Moral Passion Raise Small Soul
There are cats and cats.
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Cat One Liner
My ideas are my whores.
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Ideas One Liner Whore
Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: ‘My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.’ This stranger is a theologian.
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Finding Forest Night Order Stranger Wander Yourself
To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.
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Definition Himself Man Strength Weakness
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale
The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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Best Doctor Finding Oneself Run
The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
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Anand Thakur
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.
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Anand Thakur
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Ignorance Prejudice Remote Truth
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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Anand Thakur
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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Anand Thakur
The world is the house of the strong.
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Hard Time Inspirational Strong World
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Happiness Oneself Passion
A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it. Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Evidence Question Truth

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