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Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.

Denis Diderot

Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
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Destroy Doctor Preserve Success Work
You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.
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Himself Paint Reveal Writing
Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.
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Authority Break Goodness Oneself Privacy
If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the “enthusiasm for truth and justice” using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.
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Dedication Enthusiasm Goodness Life Sense
The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre
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Anand Thakur
The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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Best Doctor Finding Oneself Run
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
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Destroy Man Pronounce
To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.
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Definition Himself Man Strength Weakness
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Expectation Finding Myself Truth
Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one’s innocence with the loss of one’s prejudices.
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Bad Company Innocent Instruction Loss One Prejudice
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 decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
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Anand Thakur
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
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Command Justice Obedience Virtue
Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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Anand Thakur

Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.

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