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

Denis Diderot

The world is the house of the strong.
DENIS DIDEROT

Hard Time Inspirational Strong World
To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.
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Definition Himself Man Strength Weakness
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
You have to make it happen.
DENIS DIDEROT

One Liner Yourself
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
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man’s afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
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Himself Passion Pleasure Source
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Philosophy Religion Separate
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
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
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
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
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 blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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Blood God Myself Sin
There are cats and cats.
DENIS DIDEROT

Cat One Liner

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