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Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.

Denis Diderot

Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale
In order to get as much fame as one’s father one has to much more able than he.
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Fame Father Himself Order
Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
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Destroy Doctor Preserve Success Work
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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Machine Order Ordinary Quality
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
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Arouse Patriot Society
To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.
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Butterfly Color Pen Wings Woman
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
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Anand Thakur
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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Force Memories Ourselves Sentence Truth
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Step Truth
The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
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Children Father God Himself
The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Destroy Man Pronounce
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
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
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
The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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Best Doctor Finding Oneself Run
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive

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