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Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.

Denis Diderot

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
How easy it is to tell tales!
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Easy Story
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
If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.
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Anand Thakur
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Children Education Entertainment Man Preference
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
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Bitter Lying Swallow Truth
There are things I can’t force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
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Adjust Change Force Need Point View
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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Abstract Relationship Sign Study
There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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Happiness Oneself Responsibility
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Destroy Passion Philosophy Prejudice
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the “enthusiasm for truth and justice” using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.
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Dedication Enthusiasm Goodness Life Sense
When one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz , one is tempted to throw away one’s books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner.
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Compare Corner Forget Talent Temptation
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

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