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Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.

Denis Diderot

A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.
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Belief Law Myself Nation People Thinking
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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Heart Known Wisdom
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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Abstract Relationship Sign Study
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
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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Association Catch Ourselves Vice
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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Philosophy Road
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
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Anand Thakur
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
You have to make it happen.
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One Liner Yourself
There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
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Civilization Inflict Kind Man Society Woman
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
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Desire Fact Production True Willing
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Children Education Entertainment Man Preference
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Gentle Himself Man Nature

Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.

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