Quote by Denis Diderot
Distance is a great promoter of admiration! - Denis Diderot

Distance is a great promoter of admiration! – Denis Diderot

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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge… observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts reflection combines them experimentation verifies the result of that combination. – Denis Diderot

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When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a mans name live for thousands of years. – Denis Diderot

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We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us. – Denis Diderot

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To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration. – Charles Horton Cooley

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Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth. – Nero Wolfe

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Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion. – Blaise Pascal

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To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind. – Theophile Gautier

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