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Denis Diderot

No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.
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Enjoyment Heaven Man Nature Reason Receive
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
DENIS DIDEROT

God Novel Rare
Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
DENIS DIDEROT

Poetry Savage Scale
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
DENIS DIDEROT

Command Justice Obedience Virtue
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Philosophy Religion Separate
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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Anand Thakur
It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties.
DENIS DIDEROT

Difficult God Home Raining
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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Anand Thakur
We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man’s afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
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Himself Passion Pleasure Source
There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
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Hard Mad Oneself Suffering
Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.
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Build Distance Infinite Mad Plain Separate Tower
Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.
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Evil Goodness High Master Writing
There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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Anand Thakur
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Step Truth
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception

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