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There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.

Denis Diderot

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Denis Diderot
Age: 70 †
Born: 1713
Born: October 5
Died: 1784
Died: July 31
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In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.
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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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