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When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.

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
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Evidence Integrity Virtue
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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Machine Order Ordinary Quality
Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.
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Fine Himself Live Man Peace Possession Purity Religious
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
There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
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Civilization Inflict Kind Man Society Woman
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
Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
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See Theory World
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.
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Demand Finding Oneself Seek Truth
The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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Best Doctor Finding Oneself Run
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Children Education Entertainment Man Preference
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
There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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Anand Thakur
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
Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.
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Evil Goodness High Master Writing

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