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Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.

Denis Diderot

The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
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Anand Thakur
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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Abstract Relationship Sign Study
If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.
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Anand Thakur
What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.
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Comedy Oneself Play World
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Gentle Himself Man Nature
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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Anand Thakur
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
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
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
The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Destroy Man Pronounce
Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale
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
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

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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