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One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.

Denis Diderot

To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.
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Butterfly Color Pen Wings Woman
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Oneself Path Step
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge, observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
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Combination Experiment Knowledge Principle Reflection Result
There are cats and cats.
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Cat One Liner
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
My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.
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Blow Clear Finding Friendship Way
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
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Bitter Lying Swallow Truth
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
I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.
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Feeling Judgement Thinking
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
Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
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Bad Country Goodness Government Moral
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Expectation Finding Myself Truth
The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.
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Creation Dangerous Mad Man Occasion Religion

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