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    The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dicebox in hand, shaking the dice.
    Denis Diderot (1713–1784)

    Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
    —Denis Diderot (1713–1784)