L'esprit de l'escalier - Denis Diderot

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L'esprit de l'escalier

Denis Diderot

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About Denis Diderot

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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Alternative Names: Diderot

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Voltaire George Bernard Shaw Mark Twain Friedrich Nietzsche Michel de Montaigne

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Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.

To speak to you frankly, Reader, I find that you are the more wicked of the two of us. How satisfied would I be if it were as easy for me to protect myself from your calumny as it is for you to protect yourself from the boredom or the danger of my work!

To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.