At an early age I sucked up the milk of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato and Euripides, diluted with that of Moses and the prophets.
DENIS DIDEROTEvery man has his dignity. I’m willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
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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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Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Isn’t it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.
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Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.
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Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
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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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There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.
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First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.
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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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We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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