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

Denis Diderot

In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.
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Anand Thakur
There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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Happiness Oneself Responsibility
No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.
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Enjoyment Heaven Man Nature Reason Receive
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 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
It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
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Believe God Important
I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.
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Feeling Judgement Thinking
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge, observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
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Combination Experiment Knowledge Principle Reflection Result
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
Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale
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
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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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
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Expectation Finding Myself Truth
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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Heart Known Wisdom

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

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