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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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When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
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There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
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If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre
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Le public ne sait pas toujours de sirer le vrai. Thepublicdoesnot alwaysknowhow todesirethetruth.
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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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To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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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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You have to make it happen.
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En ge ne ral, plus un peuple est civilise , poli, moins ses moeurs sont poe tiques tout s'affaiblit en s'adoucissant. Ingeneral, themore civilized and refinedthepeople, the less poetic are its morals everything weakens as it mellows.
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He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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How easy it is to tell tales!
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Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders.
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Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
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The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.
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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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I discuss with myself questions of politics, love, taste, or philosophy. I let my mind rove wantonly, give it free rein to followany idea, wise or mad that may present itself. My ideas are my harlots.
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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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And his hands would plait the priest's entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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