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 make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.
Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders. - Denis Diderot
Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders.
- Denis Diderot
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings. - Denis Diderot
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. - Denis Diderot
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things. - Denis Diderot
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control. - Denis Diderot
Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy. - Denis Diderot
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious. - Denis Diderot
You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings. - Denis Diderot
All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings.
Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others. - Denis Diderot
Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others.
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