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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.
Denis Diderot
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Denis Diderot
Age: 70 †
Born: 1713
Born: October 5
Died: 1784
Died: July 31
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A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it... Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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There are cats and cats.
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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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What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.
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How easy it is to tell tales!
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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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Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.
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My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.
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Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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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 the weather is too cold or rainy, I take shelter in the Regence Cafe, where I entertain myself by watching chess being played. Paris is the world center, and this cafe is the Paris centre for the finest skill at this game.
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Tous les jours on couche avec des femmes qu'on n'aime pas, et l'on ne couche pas avec des femmes qu'on aime. Every day we sleep with women we do not love and don't sleep with the women we do love.
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You have to make it happen.
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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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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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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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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
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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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I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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