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My ideas are my whores.

Denis Diderot

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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Philosophy Road
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope
How easy it is to tell tales!
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Easy Story
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Evidence Integrity Virtue
There are cats and cats.
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Cat One Liner
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
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
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
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
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
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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Heart Known Wisdom
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
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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Anand Thakur
You have to make it happen.
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One Liner Yourself
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.
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Astonishment Eyes Move Myself

My ideas are my whores.

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