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

Denis Diderot

The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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Best Doctor Finding Oneself Run
In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Evidence Integrity Virtue
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself to prompting us to great and generous actions?
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Action Direction Generous Object
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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Anand Thakur
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.
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Enjoyment Heaven Man Nature Reason Receive
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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Anand Thakur
We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
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Bitter Lying Swallow Truth
There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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Anand Thakur
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.
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Delight Move Surprise Yourself
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
There are cats and cats.
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Cat One Liner

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

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