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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Denis Diderot

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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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La poe sie veutquelque chose d'e norme, debarbare et de sauvage. Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
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No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre
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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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It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
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Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings.
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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
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The world is the house of the strong.
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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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Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders.
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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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They mistake the first manifestations of a developing sexual nature for the voice of God calling them to Himself and it is precisely when nature is inciting them that they embrace a fashion of life contrary to nature's wish.
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He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it
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Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.
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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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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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