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You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.

Denis Diderot

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
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
You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
DENIS DIDEROT

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
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Philosophy Religion Separate
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
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Evidence Integrity Virtue
Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.
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Build Distance Infinite Mad Plain Separate Tower
Every man has his dignity. I’m willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
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Dignity Man Myself Willing
If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can’t deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
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Essential Kind Respect Wicked Yourself
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
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Creative Experiment Genius Nature Observation
You have to make it happen.
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One Liner Yourself
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
It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties.
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Difficult God Home Raining
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
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Bad Country Goodness Government Moral

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