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The world is the house of the strong.
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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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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To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.
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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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