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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
"Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them."
Explore more quotes by Denis Diderot
"The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled."
"It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire."
"Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things."
"There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies."
"In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go."
"The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children."
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