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Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.

Denis Diderot

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
It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
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Believe God Important
The wisest among us is very lucky never to have met the woman, be she beautiful or ugly, intelligent or stupid, who could drive him crazy enough to be fit to be put into an asylum.
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Beautiful Crazy Drive Enough Wisdom Woman
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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Philosophy Road
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
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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Association Catch Ourselves Vice
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
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
Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: ‘My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.’ This stranger is a theologian.
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Finding Forest Night Order Stranger Wander Yourself
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
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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Abstract Relationship Sign Study
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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Anand Thakur
There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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Anand Thakur
My ideas are my whores.
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Ideas One Liner Whore
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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Anand Thakur

Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.

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Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.

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