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There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.

Denis Diderot

There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.
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Death Fear Happiness Justice Virtue
Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path
Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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Admire Distance Greatness Promote
I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.
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Anand Thakur
Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.
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Authority Break Goodness Oneself Privacy
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
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Anand Thakur
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
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
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
How easy it is to tell tales!
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Easy Story
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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Association Catch Ourselves Vice
There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
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Civilization Inflict Kind Man Society Woman
You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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Anand Thakur
Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
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Beg Compassionate Man Poor Possible Shame
Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
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Arouse Patriot Society

There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.

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