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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

You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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Anand Thakur
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
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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Abstract Relationship Sign Study
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope
One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.
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Demand Finding Oneself Seek Truth
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
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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Philosophy Road
Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.
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Fine Himself Live Man Peace Possession Purity Religious
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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Anand Thakur
Only the bad man is alone.
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Alone Bad Man
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Children Education Entertainment Man Preference
Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.
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Authority Break Goodness Oneself Privacy
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Evil Genius World
The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
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Children Father God Himself
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

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

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