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Denis Diderot
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Quotes by Denis Diderot
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He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.

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The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dicebox in hand, shaking the dice.

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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.

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Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs

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When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years.

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Master, master, you obviously haven’t thought about this at all. We only ever feel sorry for ourselves, believe me.

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The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre.

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The fact is that she was terribly undressed and I was extremely undressed too. The fact is that I still had my hand where she didn’t have anything and she had hers where the same wasn’t quite true of me. The fact is that I found myself underneath her and consequently she found herself on top of me.
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