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Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.

Denis Diderot

The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
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Children Father God Himself
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
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
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Expectation Finding Myself Truth
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
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
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path
The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
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Adult Eyes Infant Man Old
If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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Beautiful Color Disturb Rainbow
It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties.
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Difficult God Home Raining
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.
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Blow Clear Finding Friendship Way
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
At an early age I sucked up the milk of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato and Euripides, diluted with that of Moses and the prophets.
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Age Early Milk Myself
In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.
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Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.

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