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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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The world is the house of the strong.
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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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To be born in imbecility, in the midst of pain and crisis; to be the plaything of ignorance, error, need, sickness, wickedness,…
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Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to…
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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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That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
— Seneca the Younger
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Fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism ... tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every…
— William Hazlitt
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It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures, as to make up the state of…
— William Penn
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Funeral expenses are the curse of the poor everywhere on earth, they are wasteful and unnecessary, they are the price of foolish…
— Joyce Cary
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Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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There are two kinds of Riya - Showing off-Ostentation ie pure ostentation and adulterated ostention. In pure ostentation "Riya" a man does…
— Al-Ghazali
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Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The experience of the ages that are past, the hopes of the ages that are yet to come, unite their voices in…
— Horace Mann
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