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Denis Diderot

The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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Best Doctor Finding Oneself Run
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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Heart Known Wisdom
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Expectation Finding Myself 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
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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Anand Thakur
Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: ‘My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.’ This stranger is a theologian.
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Finding Forest Night Order Stranger Wander Yourself
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
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
Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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Anand Thakur
There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.
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Death Fear Happiness Justice Virtue
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
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
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Oneself Path Step
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
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
Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.
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Evil Goodness High Master Writing

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