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Denis Diderot
Age: 70 †
Born: 1713
Born: October 5
Died: 1784
Died: July 31
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The fact is that she was terribly undressed and I was extremely undressed too. The fact is that I still had my hand where she didn't have anything and she had hers where the same wasn't quite true of me. The fact is that I found myself underneath her and consequently she found herself on top of me.
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Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.
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What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.
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Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
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The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting, and serving his successor, whoever that successor may be, no matter how wicked or stupid.
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Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one's fatherland, which is perishable?
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To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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If reason be a gift of Heaven, and we can say as much of faith, Heaven has certainly made us two gifts not only incompatible, but in direct contradiction to each other. In order to solve the difficulty, we are compelled to say either that faith is a chimera or that reason is useless.
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En ge ne ral, plus un peuple est civilise , poli, moins ses moeurs sont poe tiques tout s'affaiblit en s'adoucissant. Ingeneral, themore civilized and refinedthepeople, the less poetic are its morals everything weakens as it mellows.
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Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.
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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, dice box in hand, shaking the dice.
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In order to get as much fame as one's father one has to much more able than he.
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Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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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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Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
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