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If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.

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Denis Diderot
Age: 70 †
Born: 1713
Born: October 5
Died: 1784
Died: July 31
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I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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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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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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Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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