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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

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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Force Memories Ourselves Sentence Truth
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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Anand Thakur
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
DENIS DIDEROT

Arouse Patriot Society
Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
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Bad Country Goodness Government Moral
Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Expectation Finding Myself Truth
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.
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Authority Break Goodness Oneself Privacy
I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.
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Anand Thakur
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Ignorance Prejudice Remote Truth
The wisest among us is very lucky never to have met the woman, be she beautiful or ugly, intelligent or stupid, who could drive him crazy enough to be fit to be put into an asylum.
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Beautiful Crazy Drive Enough Wisdom Woman
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
Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
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Genius Madness Raise Status
Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
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Anand Thakur
Only the bad man is alone.
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Alone Bad Man
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild

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