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The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.

Denis Diderot

If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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Beautiful Color Disturb Rainbow
It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
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Believe God Important
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
My ideas are my whores.
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Ideas One Liner Whore
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
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
Only the bad man is alone.
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Alone Bad Man
Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
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Bad Confusion Different Follow Reveal Truth
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception
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
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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Anand Thakur
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
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Arouse Patriot Society
A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.
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Belief Law Myself Nation People Thinking
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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Heart Known Wisdom
It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties.
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Difficult God Home Raining

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