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Denis Diderot
French
October 5, 1713
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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
Denis Diderot
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Happiness
Only
Passion
Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.
Denis Diderot
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Great
Things
Only
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
Denis Diderot
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Up
Always
World
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
Denis Diderot
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God
You
Me
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
Denis Diderot
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Men
Always
Some
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
Denis Diderot
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More
Our
Than
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
Denis Diderot
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Who
First
Those
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
Denis Diderot
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Will
Never
Man
It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
Denis Diderot
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God
Very
Believe
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
Denis Diderot
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Men
Where
Place
The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
Denis Diderot
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God
Who
Very
The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
Denis Diderot
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Man
His
Back
One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
Denis Diderot
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Them
Man
His
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 true designs.
Denis Diderot
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Society
Religion
Who
Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.
Denis Diderot
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Good
Faith
Being
