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Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Denis Diderot

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
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
Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.
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Book Greatness Literature Poet Taste
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Destroy Passion Philosophy Prejudice
When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
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Allow Music Painting Performance Poetry Superstitious
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Happiness Oneself Passion
Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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Admire Distance Greatness Promote
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
Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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Anand Thakur
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
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Design Disturb Trouble True
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
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Ignorance Prejudice Remote Truth
In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
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Necessary Order Shake Willing
Only the bad man is alone.
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Alone Bad Man
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Gentle Himself Man Nature

Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

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Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

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