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When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.

Denis Diderot

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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Butterfly Color Pen Wings Woman
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
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it.
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Anand Thakur
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
The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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Abstract Relationship Sign Study
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
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
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
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
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
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Heart Known Wisdom

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