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You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.

Denis Diderot

Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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Admire Distance Greatness Promote
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
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Happiness Oneself Passion
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
The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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Best Doctor Finding Oneself Run
Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
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Command Force Obedience Power Violence
All children are essentially criminal.
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Children Crime Essential
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
Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.
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Animal Guide Instinct Intelligence Reason
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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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
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Oneself Path Step
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Ignorance Prejudice Remote Truth
The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
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Adult Eyes Infant Man Old
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
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

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