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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.
Denis Diderot
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Denis Diderot
Age: 70 †
Born: 1713
Born: October 5
Died: 1784
Died: July 31
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Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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If there were a reason for preferring the Christian religion to natural religion, it would be because the former offers us, on the nature of God and man, enlightenment that the latter lacks. Now, this is not at all the case for Christianity, instead of clarifying, gives rise to an infinite multitude of obscurities and difficulties.
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The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
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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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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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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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I feel, I think, I judge therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.
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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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The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
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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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I discuss with myself questions of politics, love, taste, or philosophy. I let my mind rove wantonly, give it free rein to followany idea, wise or mad that may present itself. My ideas are my harlots.
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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 philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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Those authors into whose hands nature has placed a magic wand, with which they no sooner touch us than we forget the unhappiness in life, than the darkness leaves our soul, and we are reconciled to existence, should be placed among the benefactors of the human race.
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From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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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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Only the bad man is alone.
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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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Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders.
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