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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.

Denis Diderot

We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
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Feeling Instrument Memories Object Surround
It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
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Desire Fact Production True Willing
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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Blood God Myself Sin
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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Philosophy Road
The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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Best Doctor Finding Oneself Run
You have to make it happen.
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One Liner Yourself
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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Anand Thakur
If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.
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Anand Thakur
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Evil Genius World
Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
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Command Force Obedience Power Violence
Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path
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
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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Anand Thakur
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
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

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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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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