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

Denis Diderot

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
It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.
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Love Rob
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Oneself Path Step
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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Philosophy Road
To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.
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Butterfly Color Pen Wings Woman
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
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
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Anand Thakur
You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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Anand Thakur
Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
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Control Order People Yourself
Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
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Destroy Doctor Preserve Success Work
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
The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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Best Doctor Finding Oneself Run
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
Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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Anand Thakur
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
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

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