When one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibn… - Denis Diderot

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When one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz, one is tempted to throw away one's books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner.

Denis Diderot

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Denis Diderot (5 October 1713 – 31 July 1784) was a French philosopher and chief editor of the historic project to produce L'Encyclopédie.

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لا تدفع مُسبقاً أبداً إذا أردتَ أن لا تلقى خدمة سيئة

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

Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one’s innocence with the loss of one’s prejudices.

When one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz, one is tempted to throw away one's books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgot… - Denis Diderot

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