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

Denis Diderot

Every man has his dignity. I’m willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
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Dignity Man Myself Willing
The wisest among us is very lucky never to have met the woman, be she beautiful or ugly, intelligent or stupid, who could drive him crazy enough to be fit to be put into an asylum.
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Beautiful Crazy Drive Enough Wisdom Woman
Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
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Control Order People Yourself
For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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Myself Prostitute Thinking
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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Association Catch Ourselves Vice
You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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Anand Thakur
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
Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.
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Authority Break Goodness Oneself Privacy
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope
Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
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Beg Compassionate Man Poor Possible Shame
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Philosophy Religion Separate
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
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Creative Experiment Genius Nature Observation
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
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Action Allow Freedom Genius Interest Place
Isn’t it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
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Better Chance Goodness Man

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