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

Denis Diderot

Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Philosophy Religion Separate
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
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Anand Thakur
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
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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Association Catch Ourselves Vice
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Ignorance Prejudice Remote Truth
There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
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Civilization Inflict Kind Man Society Woman
One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.
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Demand Finding Oneself Seek Truth
You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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Anand Thakur
Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
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Beg Compassionate Man Poor Possible Shame
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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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
A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.
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Belief Law Myself Nation People Thinking
I am wholly yours – you are everything to me; we will sustain each other in all the ills of life it may please fate to inflict upon us; you will soothe my troubles; I will comfort you in yours.
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Each Other Life Trouble Yourself
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

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