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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge, observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.

Denis Diderot

Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Evidence Integrity Virtue
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
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Arouse Patriot Society
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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Association Catch Ourselves Vice
Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
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Destroy Doctor Preserve Success Work
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Ignorance Prejudice Remote Truth
The wisest among us is very lucky never to have met the woman, be she beautiful or ugly, intelligent or stupid, who could drive him crazy enough to be fit to be put into an asylum.
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Beautiful Crazy Drive Enough Wisdom Woman
If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.
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Anand Thakur
There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
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Hard Mad Oneself Suffering
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
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Bad Confusion Different Follow Reveal Truth
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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Anand Thakur
Every man has his dignity. I’m willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
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Dignity Man Myself Willing
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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Anand Thakur
Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.
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Build Distance Infinite Mad Plain Separate Tower
Whatever dressing one gives to mushrooms, to whatever sauces our Apiciuses put them, they are not really good but to be sent back to the dungheap where they are born.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge, observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.

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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge, observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.

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