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We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.

Denis Diderot

Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.
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Book Greatness Literature Poet Taste
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
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Philosophy Religion Separate
There are cats and cats.
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Cat One Liner
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
Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Oneself Path Step
My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.
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Blow Clear Finding Friendship Way
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Atheist God Injurious
I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.
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Anand Thakur
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Step Truth
The world is the house of the strong.
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Hard Time Inspirational Strong World
Isn’t it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
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Better Chance Goodness Man
When one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz , one is tempted to throw away one’s books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner.
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Compare Corner Forget Talent Temptation
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

We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.

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