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The world is the house of the strong.

Denis Diderot

Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope
You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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Anand Thakur
Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
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Beg Compassionate Man Poor Possible Shame
The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre
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Anand Thakur
Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one’s fatherland, which is perishable?
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Enlightenment Father Greatness Oneself Perish Save
It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.
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Love Rob
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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Anand Thakur
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Expectation Finding Myself Truth
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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Anand Thakur
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Evidence Integrity Virtue
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
If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.
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Anand Thakur
For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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Myself Prostitute Thinking
All children are essentially criminal.
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Children Crime Essential
When one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz , one is tempted to throw away one’s books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner.
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Compare Corner Forget Talent Temptation
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

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