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It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.

Denis Diderot

The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre
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Anand Thakur
Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
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Destroy Doctor Preserve Success Work
I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.
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Anand Thakur
Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
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Beg Compassionate Man Poor Possible Shame
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.
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Greatness Mindset Moral Passion Raise Small Soul
No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.
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Enjoyment Heaven Man Nature Reason Receive
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
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
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Command Justice Obedience Virtue
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
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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Force Memories Ourselves Sentence Truth
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
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
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
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul

It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.

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