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Scepticism is the first step towards truth.

Denis Diderot

The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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Anand Thakur
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Evidence Integrity Virtue
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
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Arouse Patriot Society
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Step Truth
Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
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Genius Madness Raise Status
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
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild
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
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
Only the bad man is alone.
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Alone Bad Man
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Evil Genius World
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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Heart Known Wisdom
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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Anand Thakur
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
My ideas are my whores.
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Ideas One Liner Whore

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