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

Denis Diderot

We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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Association Catch Ourselves Vice
If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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Beautiful Color Disturb Rainbow
Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
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Design Disturb Trouble True
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.
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Belief Law Myself Nation People Thinking
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
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
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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Abstract Relationship Sign Study
Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: ‘My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.’ This stranger is a theologian.
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Finding Forest Night Order Stranger Wander Yourself
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
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Evidence Integrity Virtue
Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
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Beg Compassionate Man Poor Possible Shame
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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Force Memories Ourselves Sentence Truth
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
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
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Step Truth

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