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Denis Diderot has 133 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual…
• There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
• I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards…
• This root [the potato], no matter how much you prepare it, is tasteless and floury. It cannot pass for an agreeable food,…
• When shall we see poets born? After a time of disasters and great misfortunes, when harrowed nations begin to breathe again. And…
• Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the…
• The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
• His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings.

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