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His Quotes by Denis Diderot
- No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
- The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
- Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
- The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
- His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings.
- One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his…
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