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Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

Denis Diderot

Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it.
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Anand Thakur
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
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
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
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
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Command Justice Obedience Virtue
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
No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.
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Enjoyment Heaven Man Nature Reason Receive
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Evil Genius World
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
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Children Education Entertainment Man Preference
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Ignorance Prejudice Remote Truth
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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Heart Known Wisdom
Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path

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