Quote by Denis Diderot
Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things

Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things. – Denis Diderot

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. – Denis Diderot

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Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common. – Denis Diderot

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The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dicebox in hand, shaking the dice. – Denis Diderot

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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. Thatd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags. – Danica Patrick

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Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land the great ones eat up the little ones. – William Shakespeare

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Find ecstasy in life the mere sense of living is joy enough. – Emily Dickinson

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The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. – Adlai Stevenson

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