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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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A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.
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Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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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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Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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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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A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.
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I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.
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How easy it is to tell tales!
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Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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It is not the man who is beside himself, but he who is cool and collected,--who is master of his countenance, of his voice, of his actions, of his gestures, of every part of his play,--who can work upon others at his pleasure.
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You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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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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In order to get as much fame as one's father one has to much more able than he.
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Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.
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We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
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