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The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.

Denis Diderot

We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
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Feeling Instrument Memories Object Surround
All children are essentially criminal.
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Children Crime Essential
We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man’s afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
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Himself Passion Pleasure Source
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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Abstract Relationship Sign Study
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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Philosophy Road
In order to get as much fame as one’s father one has to much more able than he.
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Fame Father Himself Order
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Oneself Path Step
One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.
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Demand Finding Oneself Seek Truth
It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties.
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Difficult God Home Raining
You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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Anand Thakur
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Evil Genius World
It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.
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Love Rob
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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Creative Experiment Genius Nature Observation
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
I discuss with myself questions of politics, love, taste, or philosophy. I let my mind rove wantonly, give it free rein to followany idea, wise or mad that may present itself. My ideas are my harlots.
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Discussion Love Mad Mindset Myself Politics Present Taste

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