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• Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.

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  Integrity, Virtue, Evidence

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• Good music is very close to primitive language.

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  Literature, Language, Music Is

  "Elements of Physiology". Book by Denis Diderot, 1875.

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• Une danse est un poe' me. A dance is a poem.

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• There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

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  Inspirational, Literature, Doe

  "Dictionary of Foreign Quotations" by Mary Collison, p. 235, 1980.

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• All children are essentially criminal.

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  Children, Criminals

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• Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.

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  Religious, Philosophy, Men

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• You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.

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  Doe, Painter

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• I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.

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  Vanity, Desire, Given

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• Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.

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  Artist, Two, Perspective

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• To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!

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  Love, Passion, Order

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

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• The world is the house of the strong.

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  Strong, Gambling, House

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

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• Shakespeare's fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.

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  Fall, May, Taste

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

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• When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years.

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  Art, Philosophy, Men

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• Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one's fatherland, which is perishable?

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  Race, Forever, Atheism

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• Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.

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  Sublime, Doe, Useless

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• The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.

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  Divorce, Population, Literature

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

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• Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.

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  Genius, Novelty, Forging Ahead

  Denis Diderot, Jacques Barzun, Ralph Henry Bowen (2001). “Rameau's Nephew and Other Works”, p.43, Hackett Publishing

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• One must be oneself very little of a philosopher not to feel that the finest privilege of our reason consists in not believing in anything by the impulsion of a blind and mechanical instinct, and that it is to dishonour reason to put it in bonds as the Chaldeans did. Man is born to think for himself.

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  Believe, Men, Thinking

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• If there were a reason for preferring the Christian religion to natural religion, it would be because the former offers us, on the nature of God and man, enlightenment that the latter lacks. Now, this is not at all the case; for Christianity, instead of clarifying, gives rise to an infinite multitude of obscurities and difficulties.

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  Christian, Men, Giving

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• I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.

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  Blow, Light, Darkness

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• I am more affected by the attractions of virtue than by the deformities of vice; I turn gently away from the wicked and I fly to meet the good. If there is in a literary work, in a character, in a picture, in a statue, a beautiful spot, that is where my eyes rest; I see only that, I remember only that, all the rest is well-nigh forgotten. What becomes of me when the whole work is beautiful!

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  Beautiful, Character, Eye

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• The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.

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  Jesus, Blood, Literature

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

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• Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

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  Patriotic, Patriotism, Ephemeral

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

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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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  Imagination, Strange, Breathe

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

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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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  Order, Two, Heaven

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