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The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.

Denis Diderot

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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Philosophy Road
To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.
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Definition Himself Man Strength Weakness
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
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
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
Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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Anand Thakur
Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.
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Authority Break Goodness Oneself Privacy
The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
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Anand Thakur
You have to make it happen.
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One Liner Yourself
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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Force Memories Ourselves Sentence Truth
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Evil Genius World
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 can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.
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Himself Paint Reveal Writing
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
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Gentle Himself Man Nature
The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.
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Anand Thakur

The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.

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