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

Denis Diderot

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 Rob
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.
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Animal Guide Instinct Intelligence Reason
Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
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Control Order People Yourself
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.
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Death Fear Happiness Justice Virtue
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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Belief Law Myself Nation People Thinking
If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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Beautiful Color Disturb Rainbow
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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Feeling Judgement Thinking
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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Heart Known Wisdom
One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.
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Demand Finding Oneself Seek Truth
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the “enthusiasm for truth and justice” using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.
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Dedication Enthusiasm Goodness Life Sense
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Step Truth
Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one’s innocence with the loss of one’s prejudices.
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Bad Company Innocent Instruction Loss One Prejudice

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