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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Denis Diderot

Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale
Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.
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Fine Himself Live Man Peace Possession Purity Religious
How easy it is to tell tales!
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Easy Story
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
No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.
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Enjoyment Heaven Man Nature Reason Receive
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Philosophy Religion Separate
Every man has his dignity. I’m willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
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Dignity Man Myself Willing
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
If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.
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Anand Thakur
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Children Education Entertainment Man Preference
There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
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Civilization Inflict Kind Man Society Woman
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
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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Anand Thakur
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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Anand Thakur
The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
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Children Father God Himself
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild
For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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Myself Prostitute Thinking
We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
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Bitter Lying Swallow Truth
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
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
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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Philosophy Road
You have to make it happen.
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One Liner Yourself
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
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Arouse Patriot Society
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
The world is the house of the strong.
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Hard Time Inspirational Strong World

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