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

Denis Diderot

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
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
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Hard Mad Oneself Suffering
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
I am wholly yours – you are everything to me; we will sustain each other in all the ills of life it may please fate to inflict upon us; you will soothe my troubles; I will comfort you in yours.
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Each Other Life Trouble Yourself
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
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Command Justice Obedience Virtue
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
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception
Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.
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Book Greatness Literature Poet Taste
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.
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Anand Thakur
Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
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Beg Compassionate Man Poor Possible Shame
Whatever dressing one gives to mushrooms, to whatever sauces our Apiciuses put them, they are not really good but to be sent back to the dungheap where they are born.
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Anand Thakur
If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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Beautiful Color Disturb Rainbow
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Evidence Integrity Virtue
I discuss with myself questions of politics, love, taste, or philosophy. I let my mind rove wantonly, give it free rein to followany idea, wise or mad that may present itself. My ideas are my harlots.
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Discussion Love Mad Mindset Myself Politics Present Taste

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