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Denis Diderot
Birth date: October 05, 1713
Died: July 31, 1784
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Calyre
Calyre rated it 10 years ago
JACQUES. - C'est que, faute de savoir ce qui est écrit là-haut, on ne sait ni ce qu'on veut ni ce qu'on fait, et qu'on suit sa fantaisie qu'on appelle raison, ou sa raison qui n'est souvent qu'une dangereuse fantaisie qui tourne tantôt bien, tantôt mal.
Ashkan
Ashkan rated it 10 years ago
ژاک، اگر آن بالا نوشته باشد که ناموست به باد برود، می‌رود؛ برعکس، اگر نوشته باشد که ناموست به باد نرود، هر کاری کنند، نمی‌رود؛ پس بخواب، برادر من...از صفحهٔ ۳۵۸، برگردان مینو مشیری، چاپ دوم ۱۳۸۷ فرهنگ نشر نو
Julian Meynell's Books
Julian Meynell's Books rated it 11 years ago
The Nun is a deeply pleasing attack on the institution of nunneries. Diderot was a strong anti-clericalism, but here while he does not attack Christianity at all his target is not so much Catholicism as the actual practice of sentencing young women for life to being nuns in a nunery. The first hal...
Calyre
Calyre rated it 11 years ago
Mais le passé m'apprend ce que l'avenir me prépare.
Reading Adler's List
Reading Adler's List rated it 12 years ago
Devil take me if I really know what I am. As a rule my mind is as true as a sphere and my character as honest as the day: never false if I have the slightest interest in being true, never true if I have the slightest interest in being false. I say things as they come to me; if sensible, all to the...
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