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Vice Quotes by Denis Diderot
- If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.
- We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
- In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or…
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