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When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.

Denis Diderot

The world is the house of the strong.
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Hard Time Inspirational Strong World
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.
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Difficult God Home Raining
Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path
We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
DENIS DIDEROT

Bitter Lying Swallow Truth
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Evidence Integrity Virtue
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
Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one’s fatherland, which is perishable?
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Enlightenment Father Greatness Oneself Perish Save
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
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
All children are essentially criminal.
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Children Crime Essential
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.
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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 decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
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Anand Thakur
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
There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
DENIS DIDEROT

Happiness Oneself Responsibility

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.

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When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.

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