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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
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 are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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Association Catch Ourselves Vice
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
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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Force Memories Ourselves Sentence 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
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Oneself Path Step
You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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Anand Thakur
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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Love Rob
All children are essentially criminal.
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Children Crime Essential
How easy it is to tell tales!
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Easy Story
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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Abstract Relationship Sign Study
Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
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Anand Thakur
Every man has his dignity. I’m willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
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Dignity Man Myself Willing
There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
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Hard Mad Oneself Suffering
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious

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