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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.

Denis Diderot

Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope
I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.
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Desire Hope Immortal Myself
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Children Education Entertainment Man Preference
There are cats and cats.
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Cat One Liner
How easy it is to tell tales!
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Easy Story
We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
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Feeling Instrument Memories Object Surround
Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
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See Theory World
Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.
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Evil Goodness High Master Writing
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
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.
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Demand Finding Oneself Seek Truth
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
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
You have to make it happen.
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One Liner Yourself
It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
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Believe God Important
You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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Anand Thakur

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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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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