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Up Quotes by Denis Diderot
- If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to…
- Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their…
- To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like…
- Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.
- Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the…
- I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.
- Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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