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When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.

Denis Diderot

Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
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Beg Compassionate Man Poor Possible Shame
Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale
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
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge, observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
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Combination Experiment Knowledge Principle Reflection Result
If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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Beautiful Color Disturb Rainbow
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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Abstract Relationship Sign Study
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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Machine Order Ordinary Quality
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Oneself Path Step
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
DENIS DIDEROT

Arouse Patriot Society
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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Anand Thakur
Only the bad man is alone.
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Alone Bad Man
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Gentle Himself Man Nature
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
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
Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one’s fatherland, which is perishable?
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Enlightenment Father Greatness Oneself Perish Save
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right

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