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
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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.
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I am wholly yours – you are everything to me; we will sustain each other in all the ills of life it may please fate to inflict upon us; you will soothe my troubles; I will comfort you in yours.
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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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Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
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How easy it is to tell tales!
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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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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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Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it.
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You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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