To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him. (Denis Diderot)

To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.

Denis Diderot

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