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The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.

Denis Diderot

And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Destroy Passion Philosophy Prejudice
When one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz , one is tempted to throw away one’s books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner.
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Compare Corner Forget Talent Temptation
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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Anand Thakur
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
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Evidence Integrity Virtue
Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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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
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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Believe God Himself Touch
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
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
At an early age I sucked up the milk of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato and Euripides, diluted with that of Moses and the prophets.
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Age Early Milk Myself
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Children Education Entertainment Man Preference
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
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Allow Music Painting Performance Poetry Superstitious

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