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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Denis Diderot

You have to make it happen.
DENIS DIDEROT

One Liner Yourself
If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.
DENIS DIDEROT

Definition Himself Man Strength Weakness
There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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Happiness Oneself Responsibility
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Step Truth
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.
DENIS DIDEROT

Authority Break Goodness Oneself Privacy
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
DENIS DIDEROT

Arouse Patriot Society
There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
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Hard Mad Oneself Suffering
The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
DENIS DIDEROT

Children Father God Himself
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
DENIS DIDEROT

Destroy Passion Philosophy Prejudice
Isn’t it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
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Better Chance Goodness Man
Only the bad man is alone.
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Alone Bad Man
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.
DENIS DIDEROT

Difficult God Home Raining
Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
DENIS DIDEROT

Poetry Savage Scale

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