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Rameau's Nephew quotes

Denis Diderot

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“it would be better to know nothing than to know so little, so imperfectly” Denis Diderot, Rameau's Nephew
“If your little savage were left to fend for himself, if he kept all his natural artlessness and then united the minimal reasoning power of an infant with the violent passions of a man of thirty, he'd strangle his father and bed his mother.” Denis Diderot, Rameau's Nephew
“The important point is that you and I should exist, and that we should be you and me. Let everything else get on as best it can. The best order of things, as I see it, is the one that includes me; to hell with the most perfect of worlds, if I'm...” Denis Diderot, Rameau's Nephew
“it's better to write of great deeds than to perform trivial ones” Denis Diderot, Rameau's Nephew
“One drinks up a flattering lie in great gulps, whereas a bitter truth one sips drop by drop” Denis Diderot, Rameau's Nephew
“The more ancient an institution, the greater the number of its idioms; the worse the suffering in a particular age, the more the idioms multiply.” Denis Diderot, Rameau's Nephew

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