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If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
Denis Diderot
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Denis Diderot
Age: 70 †
Born: 1713
Born: October 5
Died: 1784
Died: July 31
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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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There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.
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Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.
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The world is the house of the strong.
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You have to make it happen.
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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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There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one's fatherland, which is perishable?
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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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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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We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
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Good music is very close to primitive language.
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One must be oneself very little of a philosopher not to feel that the finest privilege of our reason consists in not believing in anything by the impulsion of a blind and mechanical instinct, and that it is to dishonour reason to put it in bonds as the Chaldeans did. Man is born to think for himself.
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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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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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In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders.
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Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
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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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