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

Denis Diderot

Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
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Destroy Doctor Preserve Success Work
The wisest among us is very lucky never to have met the woman, be she beautiful or ugly, intelligent or stupid, who could drive him crazy enough to be fit to be put into an asylum.
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Beautiful Crazy Drive Enough Wisdom Woman
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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Anand Thakur
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Oneself Path Step
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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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
Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: ‘My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.’ This stranger is a theologian.
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Finding Forest Night Order Stranger Wander Yourself
I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.
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Anand Thakur
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
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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Anand Thakur
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man’s afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
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Himself Passion Pleasure Source
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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Anand Thakur
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
Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
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Genius Madness Raise Status
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
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Anand Thakur

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

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