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

Denis Diderot

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
The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
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Anand Thakur
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Happiness Oneself Passion
If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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Beautiful Color Disturb Rainbow
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Oneself Path Step
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Children Education Entertainment Man Preference
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.
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Build Distance Infinite Mad Plain Separate Tower
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
Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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Anand Thakur
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Step Truth
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
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
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Evil Genius World
If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the “enthusiasm for truth and justice” using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.
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Dedication Enthusiasm Goodness Life Sense

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