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Quotes by Denis Diderot
- Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
- People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.
- Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
- Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
- Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
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