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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.

Denis Diderot

Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.
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Animal Guide Instinct Intelligence Reason
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Step Truth
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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Anand Thakur
What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.
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Impartial Path Step Truth
The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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Machine Order Ordinary Quality
If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can’t deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
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Essential Kind Respect Wicked Yourself
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
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
Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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Admire Distance Greatness Promote
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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Association Catch Ourselves Vice
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Gentle Himself Man Nature
My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.
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Blow Clear Finding Friendship Way

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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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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