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He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.

Denis Diderot

The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
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Anand Thakur
A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it. Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Evidence Question Truth
The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
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Adult Eyes Infant Man Old
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Evidence Integrity Virtue
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
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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Force Memories Ourselves Sentence Truth
When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
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Allow Music Painting Performance Poetry Superstitious
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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Best Doctor Finding Oneself Run
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
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
There are cats and cats.
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Cat One Liner
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
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Creative Experiment Genius Nature Observation
Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
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Bad Confusion Different Follow Reveal Truth
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
I am wholly yours – you are everything to me; we will sustain each other in all the ills of life it may please fate to inflict upon us; you will soothe my troubles; I will comfort you in yours.
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Each Other Life Trouble Yourself

He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.

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