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Denis Diderot
Age: 70 †
Born: 1713
Born: October 5
Died: 1784
Died: July 31
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When shall we see poets born? After a time of disasters and great misfortunes, when harrowed nations begin to breathe again. And then, shaken by the terror of such spectacles, imaginations will paint things entirely strange to those who have not witnessed them.
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When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
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Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
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Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
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Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
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We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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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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How easy it is to tell tales!
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I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
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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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If exclusive privileges were not granted, and if the financial system would not tend to concentrate wealth, there would be few great fortunes and no quick wealth. When the means of growing rich is divided between a greater number of citizens, wealth will also be more evenly distributed extreme poverty and extreme wealth would be also rare.
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I discuss with myself questions of politics, love, taste, or philosophy. I let my mind rove wantonly, give it free rein to followany idea, wise or mad that may present itself. My ideas are my harlots.
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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
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But if you will recall the history of our civil troubles, you will see half the nation bathe itself, out of piety, in the blood of the other half, and violate the fundamental feelings of humanity in order to sustain the cause of God: as though it were necessary to cease to be a man in order to prove oneself religious!
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