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There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
Denis Diderot
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Denis Diderot
Age: 70 †
Born: 1713
Born: October 5
Died: 1784
Died: July 31
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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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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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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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Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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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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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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The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre
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First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart make me tremble, weep, shudder outrage me delight my eyes afterwards if you can.
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La poe sie veutquelque chose d'e norme, debarbare et de sauvage. Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
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No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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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 world is the house of the strong.
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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.
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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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Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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En ge ne ral, plus un peuple est civilise , poli, moins ses moeurs sont poe tiques tout s'affaiblit en s'adoucissant. Ingeneral, themore civilized and refinedthepeople, the less poetic are its morals everything weakens as it mellows.
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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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There's a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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