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There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.

Denis Diderot

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
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
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Creative Experiment Genius Nature Observation
Only the bad man is alone.
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Alone Bad Man
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
It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties.
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Difficult God Home Raining
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
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
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Gentle Himself Man Nature
When one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz , one is tempted to throw away one’s books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner.
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Compare Corner Forget Talent Temptation
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
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
Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: ‘My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.’ This stranger is a theologian.
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Finding Forest Night Order Stranger Wander Yourself
If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can’t deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
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Essential Kind Respect Wicked Yourself
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
First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.
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Astonishment Eyes Move Myself
The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
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Action Allow Freedom Genius Interest Place
If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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Beautiful Color Disturb Rainbow
The world is the house of the strong.
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Hard Time Inspirational Strong World
I discuss with myself questions of politics, love, taste, or philosophy. I let my mind rove wantonly, give it free rein to followany idea, wise or mad that may present itself. My ideas are my harlots.
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Discussion Love Mad Mindset Myself Politics Present Taste
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Children Education Entertainment Man Preference
Every man has his dignity. I’m willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
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Dignity Man Myself Willing
I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.
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Anand Thakur
You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.
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Himself Paint Reveal Writing
Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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Admire Distance Greatness Promote
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
You have to make it happen.
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One Liner Yourself
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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Anand Thakur

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