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Denis Diderot
Age: 70 †
Born: 1713
Born: October 5
Died: 1784
Died: July 31
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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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Time, matter, space - all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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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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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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Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
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Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.
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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 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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When one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz , one is tempted to throw away one's books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner.
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At an early age I sucked up the milk of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato and Euripides, diluted with that of Moses and the prophets.
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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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To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.
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There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.
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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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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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We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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There is only one virtue, justice only one duty, to be happy only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.
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