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All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.

Denis Diderot

The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
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Divorce Improvement Marriage Partner Population Possible
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Step Truth
You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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Anand Thakur
You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.
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Himself Paint Reveal Writing
A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.
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Belief Law Myself Nation People Thinking
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Evil Genius World
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
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
Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself to prompting us to great and generous actions?
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Action Direction Generous Object
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Gentle Himself Man Nature
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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Anand Thakur
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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Heart Known Wisdom
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
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Oneself Path Step
Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one’s innocence with the loss of one’s prejudices.
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Bad Company Innocent Instruction Loss One Prejudice
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare

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