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Denis Diderot
Age: 70 †
Born: 1713
Born: October 5
Died: 1784
Died: July 31
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What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
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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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To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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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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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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The wisest among us is very lucky never to have met the woman, be she beautiful or ugly, intelligent or stupid, who could drive him crazy enough to be fit to be put into an asylum.
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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 only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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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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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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Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
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It is not the man who is beside himself, but he who is cool and collected,--who is master of his countenance, of his voice, of his actions, of his gestures, of every part of his play,--who can work upon others at his pleasure.
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The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dice box in hand, shaking the dice.
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There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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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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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
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All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings.
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