There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.
DENIS DIDEROTI am wholly yours – you are everything to me; we will sustain each other in all the ills of life it may please fate to inflict upon us; you will soothe my troubles; I will comfort you in yours.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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When one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz , one is tempted to throw away one’s books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner.
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I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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The 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.
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Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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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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Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
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Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.
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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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I am wholly yours – you are everything to me; we will sustain each other in all the ills of life it may please fate to inflict upon us; you will soothe my troubles; I will comfort you in yours.
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There are cats and cats.
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The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
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We 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.
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Whatever dressing one gives to mushrooms, to whatever sauces our Apiciuses put them, they are not really good but to be sent back to the dungheap where they are born.
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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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In order to get as much fame as one’s father one has to much more able than he.
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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge, observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
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The wisest among us is very lucky never to have met the woman, be she beautiful or ugly, intelligent or stupid, who could drive him crazy enough to be fit to be put into an asylum.
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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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Isn’t it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
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All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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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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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
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How easy it is to tell tales!
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There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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