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All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.

Denis Diderot

Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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Admire Distance Greatness Promote
All children are essentially criminal.
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Children Crime Essential
Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one’s innocence with the loss of one’s prejudices.
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Bad Company Innocent Instruction Loss One Prejudice
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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Blood God Myself Sin
Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path
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
Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself to prompting us to great and generous actions?
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Action Direction Generous Object
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
What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.
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Impartial 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
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
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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Heart Known Wisdom
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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Control Order People Yourself
For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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Myself Prostitute Thinking
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
A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.
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Belief Law Myself Nation People Thinking

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