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In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.

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Denis Diderot
Age: 70 †
Born: 1713
Born: October 5
Died: 1784
Died: July 31
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If the weather is too cold or rainy, I take shelter in the Regence Cafe, where I entertain myself by watching chess being played. Paris is the world center, and this cafe is the Paris centre for the finest skill at this game.
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Only the bad man is alone.
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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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Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Time, matter, space - all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.
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If there were a reason for preferring the Christian religion to natural religion, it would be because the former offers us, on the nature of God and man, enlightenment that the latter lacks. Now, this is not at all the case for Christianity, instead of clarifying, gives rise to an infinite multitude of obscurities and difficulties.
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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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The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting, and serving his successor, whoever that successor may be, no matter how wicked or stupid.
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The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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In order to get as much fame as one's father one has to much more able than he.
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