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All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings.

Denis Diderot

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Denis Diderot
Age: 70 †
Born: 1713
Born: October 5
Died: 1784
Died: July 31
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Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
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The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
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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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