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Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

Denis Diderot

Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.
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Evil Goodness High Master Writing
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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Abstract Relationship Sign Study
The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
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Anand Thakur
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Happiness Oneself Passion
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Step Truth
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Evil Genius World
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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Combination Experiment Knowledge Principle Reflection Result
Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
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Anand Thakur
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
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
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
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Philosophy Religion Separate
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
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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Anand Thakur

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

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