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Denis Diderot
Age: 70 †
Born: 1713
Born: October 5
Died: 1784
Died: July 31
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Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.
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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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We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
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Tous les jours on couche avec des femmes qu'on n'aime pas, et l'on ne couche pas avec des femmes qu'on aime. Every day we sleep with women we do not love and don't sleep with the women we do love.
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Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.
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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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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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The fact is that she was terribly undressed and I was extremely undressed too. The fact is that I still had my hand where she didn't have anything and she had hers where the same wasn't quite true of me. The fact is that I found myself underneath her and consequently she found herself on top of me.
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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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Good music is very close to primitive language.
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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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Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
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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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Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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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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From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
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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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Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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