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Isn't it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
Denis Diderot
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Denis Diderot
Age: 70 †
Born: 1713
Born: October 5
Died: 1784
Died: July 31
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If reason be a gift of Heaven, and we can say as much of faith, Heaven has certainly made us two gifts not only incompatible, but in direct contradiction to each other. In order to solve the difficulty, we are compelled to say either that faith is a chimera or that reason is useless.
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If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
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We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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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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In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
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Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.
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