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Denis Diderot has 133 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual…
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There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
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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…
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This root [the potato], no matter how much you prepare it, is tasteless and floury. It cannot pass for an agreeable food,…
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When shall we see poets born? After a time of disasters and great misfortunes, when harrowed nations begin to breathe again. And…
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Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the…
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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
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His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings.
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Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you…
— Ray Charles
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The gratification which affluence of wealth, extent of power, and eminence of reputation confer, must be always, by their own nature, confined…
— Samuel Johnson
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The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve to avoid…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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There is no question that Francis was in advance of his age, as he anticipated all that is liberal and sympathetic in…
— Henryk Skolimowski
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A short time ago the demagogues blamed capitalism for the poverty of the masses. Today they rather blame capitalism for the "affluence"…
— Ludwig von Mises
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It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it is the…
— J. William Fulbright
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It is not a charity but a right, not bounty but justice, that I am pleading for. The present state of civilization…
— Thomas Paine
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A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the…
— Joan Didion
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