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In order to get as much fame as one's father one has to much more able than he.
Denis Diderot
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Denis Diderot
Age: 70 †
Born: 1713
Born: October 5
Died: 1784
Died: July 31
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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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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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If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
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Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
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Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
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Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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At an early age I sucked up the milk of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato and Euripides, diluted with that of Moses and the prophets.
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I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
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To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.
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From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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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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If reason be a gift of Heaven, and we can say as much of faith, Heaven has certainly made us two gifts not only incompatible, but in direct contradiction to each other. In order to solve the difficulty, we are compelled to say either that faith is a chimera or that reason is useless.
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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.
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No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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