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In order to get as much fame as one’s father one has to much more able than he.

Denis Diderot

Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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Machine Order Ordinary Quality
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Oneself Path Step
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception
Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
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Bad Confusion Different Follow Reveal Truth
You have to make it happen.
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One Liner Yourself
How easy it is to tell tales!
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Easy Story
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild
The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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Best Doctor Finding Oneself Run
Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
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Command Force Obedience Power Violence
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
You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
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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Bitter Lying Swallow Truth
Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself to prompting us to great and generous actions?
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Action Direction Generous Object

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