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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

If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.
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Anand Thakur
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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Believe God Himself Touch
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge, observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
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Combination Experiment Knowledge Principle Reflection Result
If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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Beautiful Color Disturb Rainbow
If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can’t deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
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Essential Kind Respect Wicked Yourself
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Happiness Oneself Passion
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 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
I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.
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Feeling Judgement Thinking
It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
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Desire Fact Production True Willing
Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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Anand Thakur
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Evil Genius World
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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Machine Order Ordinary Quality
To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.
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Butterfly Color Pen Wings Woman
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth

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

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