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I discuss with myself questions of politics, love, taste, or philosophy. I let my mind rove wantonly, give it free rein to followany idea, wise or mad that may present itself. My ideas are my harlots.

Denis Diderot

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
The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
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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
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.
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Comedy Oneself Play World
If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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Beautiful Color Disturb Rainbow
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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Anand Thakur
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception
I discuss with myself questions of politics, love, taste, or philosophy. I let my mind rove wantonly, give it free rein to followany idea, wise or mad that may present itself. My ideas are my harlots.
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Discussion Love Mad Mindset Myself Politics Present Taste
Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
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Genius Madness Raise Status
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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Anand Thakur
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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Philosophy Road
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Gentle Himself Man Nature
At an early age I sucked up the milk of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato and Euripides, diluted with that of Moses and the prophets.
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Age Early Milk Myself
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Step Truth
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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Heart Known Wisdom

I discuss with myself questions of politics, love, taste, or philosophy. I let my mind rove wantonly, give it free rein to followany idea, wise or mad that may present itself. My ideas are my harlots.

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I discuss with myself questions of politics, love, taste, or philosophy. I let my mind rove wantonly, give it free rein to followany idea, wise or mad that may present itself. My ideas are my harlots.

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