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Isn’t it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?

Denis Diderot

I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Expectation Finding Myself Truth
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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Abstract Relationship Sign Study
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 pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
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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
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception
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
In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
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Necessary Order Shake Willing
Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one’s fatherland, which is perishable?
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Enlightenment Father Greatness Oneself Perish Save
For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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Myself Prostitute Thinking
The world is the house of the strong.
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Hard Time Inspirational Strong World
There are cats and cats.
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Cat One Liner
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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Anand Thakur
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
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
Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.
DENIS DIDEROT

Book Greatness Literature Poet Taste

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