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Denis Diderot

Quote of Denis Diderot - All our virtues depend on the...


Biography - Denis Diderot:

French philosopher, art critic and writer.
Born: 1713 - Died: 1784
Period:
18th century
Place of birth: France
France

All our virtues depend on the faculty of the senses, and on the degree to which external things affect us.



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No man has received from nature the right to command others. Liberty is a gift from heaven.





Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others.





Only the passions, the great passions, can lift the soul to the greatest things.





There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.





Let us hasten to make philosophy popular.





We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.












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