Every man has his dignity. I’m willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
DENIS DIDEROTThe possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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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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What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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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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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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The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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Good music is very close to primitive language.
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All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.
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It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
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My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.
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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.
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