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The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.

Denis Diderot

How easy it is to tell tales!
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Easy Story
There are things I can’t force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
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Adjust Change Force Need Point View
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
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
In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
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Necessary Order Shake Willing
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
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
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Anand Thakur
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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Philosophy Road
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
My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.
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Blow Clear Finding Friendship Way
Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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Admire Distance Greatness Promote
Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Children Education Entertainment Man Preference
It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
DENIS DIDEROT

Desire Fact Production True Willing

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