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Scepticism is the first step toward truth.

Denis Diderot

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
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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Anand Thakur
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Oneself Path Step
The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
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Anand Thakur
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
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
Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.
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Evil Goodness High Master Writing
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
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
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Step Truth
The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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Best Doctor Finding Oneself Run
First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.
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Astonishment Eyes Move Myself
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
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 enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.
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Anand Thakur
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

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