If to be great means to be good, then Denis Diderot was a little man. But if to be great means to do great things in the teeth of great obstacles, then none can refuse him a place in the temple of the Immortals.
All men now allow that if any human power could have stemmed the avalanche of the French Revolution, it would have been the reforms of Turgot. - Evelyn Beatrice Hall
All men now allow that if any human power could have stemmed the avalanche of the French Revolution, it would have been the reforms of Turgot.
- Evelyn Beatrice Hall
A Platonic friendship is perhaps only possible when one or other of the Platonists is in love with a third person. - Evelyn Beatrice Hall
A Platonic friendship is perhaps only possible when one or other of the Platonists is in love with a third person.
If to be great means to be good, then Denis Diderot was a little man. But if to be great means to do great things in the teeth of great obstacles, th… - Evelyn Beatrice Hall
If to be great means to be good, then Denis Diderot was a little man. But if to be great means to do great things in the teeth of great obstacles, th…
He who has lost only those of whose faith and truth he is sure, has not yet reached the depth of human desolation. - Evelyn Beatrice Hall
He who has lost only those of whose faith and truth he is sure, has not yet reached the depth of human desolation.
I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it. - Evelyn Beatrice Hall
I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring. - Evelyn Beatrice Hall
There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.
It is as the father of the Encyclopedia that Denis Diderot merits eternal recognition. Guilty as he was in almost every relation of life towards the … - Evelyn Beatrice Hall
It is as the father of the Encyclopedia that Denis Diderot merits eternal recognition. Guilty as he was in almost every relation of life towards the …
The crowning blessing of life-to be born with a bias to some pursuit. - Evelyn Beatrice Hall
The crowning blessing of life-to be born with a bias to some pursuit.
It is by character and not by intellect the world is won. - Evelyn Beatrice Hall
It is by character and not by intellect the world is won.
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