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Denis Diderot
Age: 70 †
Born: 1713
Born: October 5
Died: 1784
Died: July 31
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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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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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You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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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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The wisest among us is very lucky never to have met the woman, be she beautiful or ugly, intelligent or stupid, who could drive him crazy enough to be fit to be put into an asylum.
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All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings.
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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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All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings... We must run roughshod over all these ancient puerilities, overturn the barriers that reason never erected, give back to the arts and sciences the liberty that is so precious to them.
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If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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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 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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There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence they have relegated him to a sanctuary the walls of the temple restrict his view he does not exist outside of it.
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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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And his hands would plait the priest's entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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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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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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