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Denis Diderot

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
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Bad Country Goodness Government Moral
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception
The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
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Adult Eyes Infant Man Old
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Children Education Entertainment Man Preference
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
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
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Command Justice Obedience Virtue
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 Innocent Instruction Loss One Prejudice
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 best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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Best Doctor Finding Oneself Run
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
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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Anand Thakur
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Atheist God Injurious
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
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
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.
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Comedy Oneself Play World

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