If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
DENIS DIDEROTThere is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
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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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The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre
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Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.
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When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
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Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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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 best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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