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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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If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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There's a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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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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Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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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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One must be oneself very little of a philosopher not to feel that the finest privilege of our reason consists in not believing in anything by the impulsion of a blind and mechanical instinct, and that it is to dishonour reason to put it in bonds as the Chaldeans did. Man is born to think for himself.
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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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