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Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
Denis Diderot
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Denis Diderot
Age: 70 †
Born: 1713
Born: October 5
Died: 1784
Died: July 31
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Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.
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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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Isn't it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
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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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In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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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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The fact is that she was terribly undressed and I was extremely undressed too. The fact is that I still had my hand where she didn't have anything and she had hers where the same wasn't quite true of me. The fact is that I found myself underneath her and consequently she found herself on top of me.
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The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
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And his hands would plait the priest's entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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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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There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
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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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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
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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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Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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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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From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.
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The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dice box in hand, shaking the dice.
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