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Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.

Denis Diderot

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
I discuss with myself questions of politics, love, taste, or philosophy. I let my mind rove wantonly, give it free rein to followany idea, wise or mad that may present itself. My ideas are my harlots.
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Discussion Love Mad Mindset Myself Politics Present Taste
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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Anand Thakur
There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
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Civilization Inflict Kind Man Society Woman
For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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Myself Prostitute Thinking
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Evidence Integrity Virtue
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Philosophy Religion Separate
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
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
The world is the house of the strong.
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Hard Time Inspirational Strong World
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
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
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Children Education Entertainment Man Preference
In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
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Necessary Order Shake Willing
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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Anand Thakur

Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.

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