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No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.

Denis Diderot

The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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Blood God Myself Sin
Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
DENIS DIDEROT

Genius Madness Raise Status
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
DENIS DIDEROT

Children Education Entertainment Man Preference
Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
DENIS DIDEROT

Bad Confusion Different Follow Reveal Truth
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.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
DENIS DIDEROT

Action Allow Freedom Genius Interest Place
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.
DENIS DIDEROT

Compare Corner Forget Talent Temptation
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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Feeling Instrument Memories Object Surround
You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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Anand Thakur
How easy it is to tell tales!
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Easy Story
Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
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.
DENIS DIDEROT

Essential Kind Respect Wicked Yourself
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare

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