Every human virtue and every vice has been fashionable for a while and then unfashionable. Physical strength had its moment. So did martial skills. Bravery is sometimes more and sometimes less well thought of. The more a thing is common the less it is valued and the less it is praised.
 Denis Diderot, Jacques the Fatalist and his Master (1796). copy citation

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Author Denis Diderot
Source Jacques the Fatalist and his Master
Topic strength vice
Date 1796
Language English
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Note Translated by Michael Henry
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