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Schriftsteller, Philosoph, "Der Hausvater", "Die Nonne" (Frankreich, 1713 - 1784).

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Denis Diderot wäre heute 311 Jahre, 0 Monate, 4 Tage oder 113.595 Tage alt.

Geboren am 05.10.1713 in Langres
Gestorben am 31.07.1784 in Paris
Sternzeichen: ♎ Waage

• I can be expected to look for truth, but not to find it.

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• Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

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• No human being has a natural right to rule over others.

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• Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

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• See this egg. It is with this that all the schools of theology and all the temples of the earth are to be overturned.

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• Staircase wit.

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• The best doctor is the one you run for and can't find.

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• The first vows sworn by two creatures of flesh and blood were made at the foot of a rock that was crumbling to dust; they called as witness to their constancy a heaven which never stays the same for one moment; everything within themand around them was changing, and they thought their hearts were exempt from vicissitudes. Children!

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• There are two sorts of laws, those of absolute equity and universality, and the bizarre ones which owe their autonomy only to blindness or to the force of circumstance. The latter merely cover the man who is breaking them with a passing disgrace, which time then transfers to the judges and the nations, on whom it remains forever.

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• There is no better role to play among the great than that of jester.

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• We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

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• What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step toward truth.

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• When we know how to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the hearts of others.

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• "Assommer, Monsieur, assommer! On n'assomme personne dans une ville bien policée! »
  • Lucien Giordani spricht . . .

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• [. . .] Quoi de plus commun que de se croire deux nez au visage, et de se moquer de celui qui se croit deux trous au cul?

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• Aucun homme a le droit naturel de dominer les autres.
  • Lucien Giordani spricht . . .

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• Aucun homme n'a reçu de la nature le droit de commander les autres.
  • Lucien Giordani spricht . . .

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• Cet homme n'est que le second dans tous les genres.

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• Cette femme-là est ivre du sentiment d'immortalité, et je vous la garantis prosternée devant l'image de la postérité.

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• Dans la nature, toutes les espèces se dévorent: Toutes les conditions se dévorent dans la société.

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