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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

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
The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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Best Doctor Finding Oneself Run
All children are essentially criminal.
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Children Crime Essential
There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.
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Death Fear Happiness Justice Virtue
The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.
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Creation Dangerous Mad Man Occasion Religion
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Evidence Integrity Virtue
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope
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
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Ignorance Prejudice Remote Truth
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
People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you’ve got to keep your feet warm.
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Anand Thakur
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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Anand Thakur
Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it.
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Anand Thakur
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
We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
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Bitter Lying Swallow 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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