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If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.

Denis Diderot

People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you’ve got to keep your feet warm.
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Anand Thakur
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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Abstract Relationship Sign Study
All children are essentially criminal.
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Children Crime Essential
First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.
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Astonishment Eyes Move Myself
You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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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
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can’t deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
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Essential Kind Respect Wicked Yourself
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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Philosophy Road
For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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Myself Prostitute Thinking
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
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Arouse Patriot Society
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
Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
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Control Order People Yourself
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
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Anand Thakur

If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.

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