Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.
DENIS DIDEROT
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Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.
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There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
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It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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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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There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
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What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.
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There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
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Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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