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Quote by Denis Diderot
We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop

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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It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. – Denis Diderot

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When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music. – Denis Diderot

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The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled. – Denis Diderot

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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing. – Jorge Luis Borges

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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver. – Edmund Burke

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