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Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one’s innocence with the loss of one’s prejudices.

Denis Diderot

The world is the house of the strong.
DENIS DIDEROT

Hard Time Inspirational Strong World
Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
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Command Force Obedience Power Violence
Every man has his dignity. I’m willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
DENIS DIDEROT

Dignity Man Myself Willing
Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.
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Fine Himself Live Man Peace Possession Purity Religious
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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Believe God Himself Touch
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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Anand Thakur
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
DENIS DIDEROT

Arouse Patriot Society
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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Anand Thakur
You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.
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Himself Paint Reveal Writing
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
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Step Truth
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
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Anand Thakur
The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Destroy Man Pronounce
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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Blood God Myself Sin

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 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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