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There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.

Denis Diderot

The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it. Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
DENIS DIDEROT

Evidence Question Truth
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
For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
DENIS DIDEROT

Myself Prostitute Thinking
All children are essentially criminal.
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Children Crime Essential
You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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Heart Known Wisdom
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
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Arouse Patriot Society
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
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Feeling Instrument Memories Object Surround
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope
Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
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Beg Compassionate Man Poor Possible Shame
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
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.
DENIS DIDEROT

Essential Kind Respect Wicked Yourself

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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