You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.
DENIS DIDEROTThe blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.
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Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.
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Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
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Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
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We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
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Good music is very close to primitive language.
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There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
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You have to make it happen.
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And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself to prompting us to great and generous actions?
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The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man’s afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
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How easy it is to tell tales!
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A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it. Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
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Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Whatever dressing one gives to mushrooms, to whatever sauces our Apiciuses put them, they are not really good but to be sent back to the dungheap where they are born.
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Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.
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My ideas are my whores.
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