The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
DENIS DIDEROTHow easy it is to tell tales!
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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There are cats and cats.
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Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
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Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
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The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
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There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.
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Every man has his dignity. I’m willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
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Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.
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The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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