Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
DENIS DIDEROTWe 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.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.
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Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
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I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.
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Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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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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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 pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
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You have to make it happen.
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People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you’ve got to keep your feet warm.
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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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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
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Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
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We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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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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The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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