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

Denis Diderot

Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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Philosophy Road
We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
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Bitter Lying Swallow Truth
There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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Anand Thakur
There are cats and cats.
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Cat One Liner
I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.
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Feeling Judgement Thinking
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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Anand Thakur
If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the “enthusiasm for truth and justice” using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.
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Dedication Enthusiasm Goodness Life Sense
The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Destroy Man Pronounce
The world is the house of the strong.
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Hard Time Inspirational Strong World
Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.
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Evil Goodness High Master Writing
Whatever dressing one gives to mushrooms, to whatever sauces our Apiciuses put them, they are not really good but to be sent back to the dungheap where they are born.
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Anand Thakur

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

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