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

Denis Diderot

Whatever dressing one gives to mushrooms, to whatever sauces our Apiciuses put them, they are not really good but to be sent back to the dungheap where they are born.
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Anand Thakur
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Children Education Entertainment Man Preference
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Evil Genius World
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 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
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
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Happiness Oneself Passion
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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Anand Thakur
If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.
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Anand Thakur
Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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Admire Distance Greatness Promote
Only the bad man is alone.
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Alone Bad Man
A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it. Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Evidence Question Truth
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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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
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.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
DENIS DIDEROT

Arouse Patriot Society

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