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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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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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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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I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance…
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A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.
— Thomas Love Peacock
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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,…
— Denis Diderot
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Chance makes a plaything of a man's life.
— Seneca the Younger
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From that night on, the electron-up to that time largely the plaything of the scientist-had clearly entered the field as a potent…
— Robert Andrews Millikan
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I think every family should have a dog; it is like having a perpetual baby; it is the plaything and crony of…
— John Brown
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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight,…
— Alexander Pope
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What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities; and it learns…
— Plutarch
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