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It is as the father of the Encyclopedia that Denis Diderot merits eternal recognition. Guilty as he was in almost every relation of life towards the individual, for mankind, in the teeth of danger and of infidelity, at the ill-paid sacrifice of the best years of his exuberant life, he produced that book which first levelled a free path to knowledge and enfranchised the soul of his generation.

— Evelyn Beatrice Hall The Friends of Voltaire (1906)

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There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.

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He who has lost only those of whose faith and truth he is sure, has not yet reached the depth of human desolation.

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