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• I discuss with myself questions of politics, love, taste, or philosophy. I let my mind rove wantonly, give it free rein to followany idea, wise or mad that may present itself. My ideas are my harlots.

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  Funny, Wise, Honesty

  "Rameau's Nephew". Book by Denis Diderot, 1805.

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• Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.

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  Gratitude, Inspirational Christmas, Burden

  Denis Diderot, Sylvia Margaret Hill (1897). “Rameau's Nephew: A Translation from Diderot's Autographic Text”

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• Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.

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  Men, Giving, Shame

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• Only the bad man is alone.

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  Men, Solitude, Bad Man

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• What a hell of an economic system! Some are replete with everything while others, whose stomachs are no less demanding, whose hunger is just as recurrent, have nothing to bite on. The worst of it is the constrained posture need puts you in. The needy man does not walk like the rest; he skips, slithers, twists, crawls.

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  Men, Twists, Doe

  "Rameau's Nephew". Book by Denis Diderot, 1821.

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• All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings... We must run roughshod over all these ancient puerilities, overturn the barriers that reason never erected, give back to the arts and sciences the liberty that is so precious to them.

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  Running, Art, Giving

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• El poder adquirido por la violencia no es más que una usurpación, y sólo dura mientras la fuerza del que manda prevalece sobre la de los que obedecen.

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  Power, Long, Denial

  "L'Encyclopédie". Book by Denis Diderot, 1751-1766.

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• If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.

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  Hijo, Alma, Diablo

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• To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.

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  Miracle, Absurdity, Prove

  "The Anchor Book of French Quotations with English Translations". Book by Norbert Gutermam, 1963.

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• It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.

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  Desire, Facts, Said

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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• 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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  Country, Europe, Government

  "Selected Writings". Book by Lester G. Crocker, 1966.

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• I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards which we must work is either to extend the boundaries of the patches of light, or to increase their number. One of these tasks falls to the creative genius; the other requires a sort of sagacity combined with perfectionism.

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  Fall, Dark, Science

  Denis Diderot, David J. Adams (2000). “Thoughts on the interpretation of nature: and other philosophical works”, Clinamen Press Ltd.

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• It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

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  Human Nature, Conventions, Should

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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• What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.

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  Philosophy, Firsts, Steps

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• Sólo hay una pasión, la pasión por la felicidad.

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  Inspiración, Felicidad, Feliz

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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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.

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  Greatness, Men, Light

  "The Anchor Book of French Quotations with English Translations". Book by Norbert Gutermam, 1963.

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• To be born in imbecility, in the midst of pain and crisis; to be the plaything of ignorance, error, need, sickness, wickedness, and passions; to return step by step to imbecility, from the time of lisping to that of doting; to live among knaves and charlatans of all kinds; to die between one man who takes your pulse and another who troubles your head; never to know where you come from, why you come and where you are going! That is what is called the most important gift of our parents and nature. Life.

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  Pain, Fear, Ignorance

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• First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.

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  Art, Moving, Eye

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• I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.

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  Silence, Important, Matter

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• 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.

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  Fate, Comfort, May

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• It is not the man who is beside himself, but he who is cool and collected,--who is master of his countenance, of his voice, of his actions, of his gestures, of every part of his play,--who can work upon others at his pleasure.

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  Men, Play, Voice

  Friedrich Melchior Freiherr von Grimm, Denis Diderot (1815). “Historical & Literary Memoirs and Anecdotes, Selected from the Correspondence of Baron de Grimm and Diderot with the Duke of Saxe-Gotha, and Many Other Distinguished Persons, Between the Years of 1753 and 1790”, p.68

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• It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.

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  Dios, Religioso, Error

  "Against the Faith". Book by Jim Herrick, 1985.

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• If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.

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  Believe, Atheism, Literature

  Denis Diderot, David J. Adams (2000). “Thoughts on the interpretation of nature: and other philosophical works”, Clinamen Press Ltd.

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• ¿Qué es este mundo? Un todo complejo, sujeto a revoluciones interminables. Todas estas revoluciones muestran una continua tendencia a la destrucción; una rápida sucesión de seres que se suceden, avanzan y desaparecen; una simetría fugaz; el orden de un instante. Os reprochaba hace un momento que estimarais la perfección de las cosas por vuestra propia capacidad; y podría acusaros aquí de medir su duración por la duración de vuestros propios días.

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  Order, Perfection, World

  "Book by Denis Diderot". Book by Denis Diderot, 1749.

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• We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.

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  Lying, Bitter, Flattery

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