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We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.

Denis Diderot

Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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Admire Distance Greatness Promote
To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.
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Definition Himself Man Strength Weakness
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
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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Association Catch Ourselves Vice
What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.
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Comedy Oneself Play World
I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.
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Feeling Judgement Thinking
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Gentle Himself Man Nature
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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Each Other Life Trouble Yourself
Isn’t it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
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Better Chance Goodness Man
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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Abstract Relationship Sign Study
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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Heart Known Wisdom
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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Philosophy Road
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Happiness Oneself Passion
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

We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.

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