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I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.

Denis Diderot

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge, observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
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Combination Experiment Knowledge Principle Reflection Result
There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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Anand Thakur
First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.
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Delight Move Surprise Yourself
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
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Adult Eyes Infant Man Old
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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Abstract Relationship Sign Study
My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.
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Blow Clear Finding Friendship Way
Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
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Bad Country Goodness Government Moral
Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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Admire Distance Greatness Promote
There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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Happiness Oneself Responsibility
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
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
There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.
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Death Fear Happiness Justice Virtue

I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.

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