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Denis Diderot

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

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Diderot is saying that the problems we see in people are not caused by their natural instincts, but by harmful social rules and traditions. These negative customs twist and damage what is originally good or neutral in human behavior.

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