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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.

Denis Diderot

The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre
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Anand Thakur
I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.
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Desire Hope Immortal Myself
Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path
The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
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Children Father God Himself
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 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
There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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Happiness Oneself Responsibility
What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.
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Impartial Path Step Truth
A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it. Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Evidence Question Truth
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Gentle Himself Man Nature
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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Association Catch Ourselves Vice
At an early age I sucked up the milk of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato and Euripides, diluted with that of Moses and the prophets.
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Age Early Milk Myself
The world is the house of the strong.
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Hard Time Inspirational Strong World
The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Destroy Man Pronounce
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Children Education Entertainment Man Preference
The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.
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Creation Dangerous Mad Man Occasion Religion

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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