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Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.

Denis Diderot

The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
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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
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
For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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Myself Prostitute Thinking
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
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Destroy Passion Philosophy Prejudice
We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
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Feeling Instrument Memories Object Surround
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
One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.
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Demand Finding Oneself Seek Truth
There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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Anand Thakur
The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
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Action Allow Freedom Genius Interest Place
You have to make it happen.
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One Liner Yourself
Whatever dressing one gives to mushrooms, to whatever sauces our Apiciuses put them, they are not really good but to be sent back to the dungheap where they are born.
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Anand Thakur
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Step Truth
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Happiness Oneself Passion
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild

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