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Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Denis Diderot

When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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Heart Known Wisdom
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope
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
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
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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Believe God Himself Touch
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Happiness Oneself Passion
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
There are things I can’t force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
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Adjust Change Force Need Point View
Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.
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Fine Himself Live Man Peace Possession Purity Religious
A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.
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Belief Law Myself Nation People Thinking
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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Abstract Relationship Sign Study
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.
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Enjoyment Heaven Man Nature Reason Receive
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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Anand Thakur
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
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

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