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The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.

Denis Diderot

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
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope
There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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Happiness Oneself Responsibility
There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
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Civilization Inflict Kind Man Society Woman
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Philosophy Religion Separate
There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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Anand Thakur
What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.
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Impartial Path Step Truth
Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
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Beg Compassionate Man Poor Possible Shame
The world is the house of the strong.
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Hard Time Inspirational Strong World
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
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Destroy Passion Philosophy Prejudice
How easy it is to tell tales!
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Easy Story
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
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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Force Memories Ourselves Sentence Truth
I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.
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Anand Thakur
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception

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