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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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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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Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.
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A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.
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A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it... Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
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No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
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If exclusive privileges were not granted, and if the financial system would not tend to concentrate wealth, there would be few great fortunes and no quick wealth. When the means of growing rich is divided between a greater number of citizens, wealth will also be more evenly distributed extreme poverty and extreme wealth would be also rare.
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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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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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I feel, I think, I judge therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.
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