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Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.

Denis Diderot

First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.
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Astonishment Eyes Move Myself
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
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
It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.
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Love Rob
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception
Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
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Bad Country Goodness Government Moral
Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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Anand Thakur
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Philosophy Religion Separate
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Step Truth
Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path
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
Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one’s innocence with the loss of one’s prejudices.
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Bad Company Innocent Instruction Loss One Prejudice
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
To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.
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Definition Himself Man Strength Weakness
Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
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Anand Thakur

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