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Denis Diderot

"Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine."

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"Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine."

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"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."

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"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."

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"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."

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"No man may make another free."

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"Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men."

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"Do we elect a man because of what he stands for, because of where he stands on the issues, because how he makes the nation feel?"

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"In every author let us distinguish the man from his works."

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"We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have."

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"When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music."
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"We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates."
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"My ideas are my whores."
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"We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves."
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"The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers."
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"No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings."
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"The first step towards philosophy is incredulity."
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