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To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.

Denis Diderot

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
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
Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale
Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one’s fatherland, which is perishable?
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Enlightenment Father Greatness Oneself Perish Save
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
Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.
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Authority Break Goodness Oneself Privacy
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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Anand Thakur
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Expectation Finding Myself Truth
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
My ideas are my whores.
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Ideas One Liner Whore
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
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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Heart Known Wisdom
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Evil Genius World
I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.
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Feeling Judgement Thinking
It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
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Believe God Important
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

To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.

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