Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.
DENIS DIDEROTDoctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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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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Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one’s innocence with the loss of one’s prejudices.
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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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In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.
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Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
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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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The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can’t deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
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It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
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Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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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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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.
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