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The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre

Denis Diderot

Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
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Destroy Doctor Preserve Success Work
In order to get as much fame as one’s father one has to much more able than he.
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Fame Father Himself Order
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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Blood God Myself Sin
The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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Best Doctor Finding Oneself Run
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
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
Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one’s innocence with the loss of one’s prejudices.
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Bad Company Innocent Instruction Loss One Prejudice
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
You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.
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Himself Paint Reveal Writing
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
Isn’t it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
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Better Chance Goodness Man
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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Anand Thakur
We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
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Feeling Instrument Memories Object Surround
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Gentle Himself Man Nature
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope

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