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Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.

Denis Diderot

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
To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.
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Butterfly Color Pen Wings Woman
Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
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See Theory World
The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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Best Doctor Finding Oneself Run
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.
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Anand Thakur
To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.
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Definition Himself Man Strength Weakness
There are cats and cats.
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Cat One Liner
We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
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Bitter Lying Swallow Truth
What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.
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Comedy Oneself Play World
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
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Gentle Himself Man Nature
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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Anand Thakur
Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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Blood God Myself Sin
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

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