When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
DENIS DIDEROTAll children are essentially criminal.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.
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Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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When one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz , one is tempted to throw away one’s books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner.
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We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.
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What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
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It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
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A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.
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Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.
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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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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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