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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 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
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
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
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Step Truth
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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Admire Distance Greatness Promote
I am wholly yours – you are everything to me; we will sustain each other in all the ills of life it may please fate to inflict upon us; you will soothe my troubles; I will comfort you in yours.
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Each Other Life Trouble Yourself
The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre
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Anand Thakur
Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.
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Greatness Mindset Moral Passion Raise Small Soul
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Children Education Entertainment Man Preference
The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
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Divorce Improvement Marriage Partner Population Possible
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
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
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
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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Philosophy Road
The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
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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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