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It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.

Denis Diderot

The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
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
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
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
The world is the house of the strong.
DENIS DIDEROT

Hard Time Inspirational Strong World
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.
DENIS DIDEROT

Belief Law Myself Nation People Thinking
The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Destroy Man Pronounce
We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
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Feeling Instrument Memories Object Surround
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.
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Book Greatness Literature Poet Taste
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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Blood God Myself Sin
For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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Myself Prostitute Thinking
There are things I can’t force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
DENIS DIDEROT

Adjust Change Force Need Point View

It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.

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It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.

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