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To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.

Denis Diderot

Good music is very close to primitive language.
DENIS DIDEROT

Goodness Language Music Primitive
I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.
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Desire Hope Immortal Myself
Isn’t it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
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Better Chance Goodness Man
Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
DENIS DIDEROT

Design Disturb Trouble True
First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.
DENIS DIDEROT

Astonishment Eyes Move Myself
Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
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Bad Country Goodness Government Moral
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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Anand Thakur
Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one’s innocence with the loss of one’s prejudices.
DENIS DIDEROT

Bad Company Innocent Instruction Loss One Prejudice
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
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Creative Experiment Genius Nature Observation
The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Destroy Man Pronounce
People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you’ve got to keep your feet warm.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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Association Catch Ourselves Vice
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Philosophy Religion Separate
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Children Education Entertainment Man Preference
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
My ideas are my whores.
DENIS DIDEROT

Ideas One Liner Whore

To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.

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