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There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.

Denis Diderot

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
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Oneself Path Step
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Step Truth
There are cats and cats.
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Cat One Liner
I discuss with myself questions of politics, love, taste, or philosophy. I let my mind rove wantonly, give it free rein to followany idea, wise or mad that may present itself. My ideas are my harlots.
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Discussion Love Mad Mindset Myself Politics Present Taste
Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.
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Book Greatness Literature Poet Taste
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
My ideas are my whores.
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Ideas One Liner Whore
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
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
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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Force Memories Ourselves Sentence Truth
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
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
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception
All children are essentially criminal.
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Children Crime Essential

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