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We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
Denis Diderot
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Denis Diderot
Age: 70 †
Born: 1713
Born: October 5
Died: 1784
Died: July 31
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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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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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I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
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In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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