Only the bad man is alone.
DENIS DIDEROTTo 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.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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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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The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
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Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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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.
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Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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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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No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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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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My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.
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