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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others.  Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.
No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.
 Denis Diderot

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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
 Thích Nhất Hạnh
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

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Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
 Denis Diderot
If your little savage were left to himself and be allowed to retain all his ignorance, he would in time join the infant's reasoning to the grown man's passion, he would strangle his father and sleep with his mother.
 Denis Diderot
The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.
 Denis Diderot
In order to get as much fame as one's father one has to much more able than he.
 Denis Diderot
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
 Denis Diderot