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Only the bad man is alone.

Denis Diderot

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Denis Diderot
Age: 70 †
Born: 1713
Born: October 5
Died: 1784
Died: July 31
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When shall we see poets born? After a time of disasters and great misfortunes, when harrowed nations begin to breathe again. And then, shaken by the terror of such spectacles, imaginations will paint things entirely strange to those who have not witnessed them.
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When one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz , one is tempted to throw away one's books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner.
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Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders.
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Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
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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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In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.
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The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
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In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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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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The world is the house of the strong.
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What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.
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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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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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Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
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Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Le public ne sait pas toujours de sirer le vrai. Thepublicdoesnot alwaysknowhow todesirethetruth.
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There is only one virtue, justice only one duty, to be happy only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.
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Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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How easy it is to tell tales!
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