I don’t like to speak about the living because from time to time one is ashamed of the good and the bad things one says of them – of the good things because they go and spoil them and the bad because they make amends.
 Denis Diderot, Jacques the Fatalist and his Master (1796). copy citation

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Author Denis Diderot
Source Jacques the Fatalist and his Master
Topic time good
Date 1796
Language English
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Note Translated by Michael Henry
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