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Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our me

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory. – Denis Diderot

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Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it. – Denis Diderot

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Patriotism
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Denis Diderot
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When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a mans name live for thousands of years. – Denis Diderot

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Art
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Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law. – Rabindranath Tagore

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Truth

Ive been &amp am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen &amp Im quite ordinary, &amp will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point Im one of the few people who tell the truth about myself. – T. E. Lawrence

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Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Humility is truth. – Desiderius Erasmus

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I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this lesson thou will learn to avoid the frogs foolish ambition of swelling to rival the bigness of the ox. – Miguel de Cervantes

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