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Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.

Denis Diderot

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.
DENIS DIDEROT

Each Other Life Trouble Yourself
The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.
DENIS DIDEROT

Creation Dangerous Mad Man Occasion Religion
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
DENIS DIDEROT

Philosophy Road
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
DENIS DIDEROT

Command Justice Obedience Virtue
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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Believe God Himself Touch
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
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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Essential Kind Respect Wicked Yourself
For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
DENIS DIDEROT

Myself Prostitute Thinking
The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
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Adult Eyes Infant Man Old
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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Abstract Relationship Sign Study
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
DENIS DIDEROT

Philosophy Religion Separate
Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path
Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
DENIS DIDEROT

Destroy Doctor Preserve Success Work
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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Association Catch Ourselves Vice
If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the “enthusiasm for truth and justice” using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.
DENIS DIDEROT

Dedication Enthusiasm Goodness Life Sense
Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
DENIS DIDEROT

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