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Denis Diderot: 'It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.'

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Denis Diderot: 'The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.'

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Denis Diderot: 'Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.'

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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.'

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Denis Diderot: 'In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.'

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Denis Diderot: 'There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.'

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Denis Diderot: 'Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.'

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Marquis de Sade: 'The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to achieve the designs it has for man.'

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Marquis de Sade: 'Religions are the cradles of despotism.'

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Marquis de Sade: 'Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.'

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Marquis de Sade: 'Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.'

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Marquis de Sade: 'One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.'

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Marquis de Sade: 'No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.'

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Marquis de Sade: 'They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.'

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Marquis de Sade: 'Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.'

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Marquis de Sade: 'The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.'

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Marquis de Sade: 'Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.'

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Marquis de Sade: 'Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.'

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Marquis de Sade: 'My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!'

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Marquis de Sade: 'Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.'

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