Date: 1772
"It will remind me of what I used to be, and Pride will have to come to a standstill at the threshold of my heart."
preview | full record— Diderot, Denis (1713-1784)
Date: 1777
"The minds of the negroes are contracted; because slavery destroys all the springs of the soul."
preview | full record— Raynal, Guillaume Thomas (1713-1796)
Date: 1780-85; in French, 36 vols. 1749-1788
"Is it difficult to perceive that our ideas originate from our senses alone; that the objects we regard as real existences, are those concerning which the senses uniformly give the same testimony."
preview | full record— Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de (1707-1788)
Date: 1788
"Those arts that ornament the mind, as geography, arithmetic, —"
preview | full record— Berquin, Arnaud
Date: 1788
"A humane heart always rejoices to soften the distresses of its fellow creatures."
preview | full record— Berquin, Arnaud
Date: 1788
"In short, one wants but fingers, and no head for games of chance: and in my thought, such games are utterly unworthy of a thinking man."
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