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Good music is very close to primitive language.
Denis Diderot
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Denis Diderot
Age: 70 †
Born: 1713
Born: October 5
Died: 1784
Died: July 31
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From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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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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There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
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If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.
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The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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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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All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings.
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A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.
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Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.
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We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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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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If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
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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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In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.
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Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
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Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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