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Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.

Denis Diderot

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
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
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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Heart Known Wisdom
Every man has his dignity. I’m willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
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Dignity Man Myself Willing
It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
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Believe God Important
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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Anand Thakur
There are things I can’t force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
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Adjust Change Force Need Point View
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
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.
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Astonishment Eyes Move Myself
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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Believe God Himself Touch
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
No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.
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Enjoyment Heaven Man Nature Reason Receive
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

Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.

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