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Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
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 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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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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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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Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Tous les jours on couche avec des femmes qu'on n'aime pas, et l'on ne couche pas avec des femmes qu'on aime. Every day we sleep with women we do not love and don't sleep with the women we do love.
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