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• The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.

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  People, Lovers, Sexuality

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• Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.

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  Gratitude, Inspirational Christmas, Burden

  Denis Diderot, Sylvia Margaret Hill (1897). “Rameau's Nephew: A Translation from Diderot's Autographic Text”

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• There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.

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  Father, Want, Heavenly

  "Philosophical Thoughts". Book by Denis Diderot, No. 51, 1746.

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• The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.

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  God, Religious, Men

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• Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.

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  Men, Age, Genius

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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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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  Miracle, Absurdity, Prove

  "The Anchor Book of French Quotations with English Translations". Book by Norbert Gutermam, 1963.

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• All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings... We must run roughshod over all these ancient puerilities, overturn the barriers that reason never erected, give back to the arts and sciences the liberty that is so precious to them.

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  Running, Art, Giving

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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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  Power, Long, Denial

  "L'Encyclopédie". Book by Denis Diderot, 1751-1766.

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• Scepticism is the first step toward truth.

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  Philosophy, Science, Steps

  "The Anchor Book of French Quotations with English Translations". Book by Norbert Gutermam, 1963.

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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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  Sublime, Essentials, Thieves

  "Rameau's Nephew". Book by Denis Diderot, 1805.

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• It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.

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  Love, Life, Giving

  "Paradox of the Actor". Book by Denis Diderot, 1830.

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• It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

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  Human Nature, Conventions, Should

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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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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  Funny, Wise, Honesty

  "Rameau's Nephew". Book by Denis Diderot, 1805.

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• To be born in imbecility, in the midst of pain and crisis; to be the plaything of ignorance, error, need, sickness, wickedness, and passions; to return step by step to imbecility, from the time of lisping to that of doting; to live among knaves and charlatans of all kinds; to die between one man who takes your pulse and another who troubles your head; never to know where you come from, why you come and where you are going! That is what is called the most important gift of our parents and nature. Life.

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  Pain, Fear, Ignorance

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• I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards which we must work is either to extend the boundaries of the patches of light, or to increase their number. One of these tasks falls to the creative genius; the other requires a sort of sagacity combined with perfectionism.

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  Fall, Dark, Science

  Denis Diderot, David J. Adams (2000). “Thoughts on the interpretation of nature: and other philosophical works”, Clinamen Press Ltd.

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• It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.

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  Desire, Facts, Said

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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• There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

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  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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• First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.

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  Art, Moving, Eye

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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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  God, Religious, Mistake

  "Against the Faith". Book by Jim Herrick, 1985.

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• He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.

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  Men, Gentleman, He Man

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• Time, matter, space - all, it may be, are no more than a point.

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  Space, May, Matter

  "Letter on the Blind". Book by Denis Diderot, 1749.

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• I am wholly yours - you are everything to me; we will sustain each other in all the ills of life it may please fate to inflict upon us; you will soothe my troubles; I will comfort you in yours.

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  Fate, Comfort, May

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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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  Son, Soul, Devil

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• If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.

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  Believe, Atheism, Literature

  Denis Diderot, David J. Adams (2000). “Thoughts on the interpretation of nature: and other philosophical works”, Clinamen Press Ltd.

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• I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.

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  Truth, Looks, Expected

  "Philosophical Thoughts". Book by Denis Diderot, 1746.

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