“From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.”

—  Denis Diderot

Essai sur le Mérite de la Vertu (1745); a translation and adaptation of Inquiry concerning Virtue or Merit (1699) by Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury
Source: Essai sur le mérite et la vertu

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French Enlightenment philosopher and encyclopædist 1713–1784

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