When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
DENIS DIDEROTIntegrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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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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No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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To 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.
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If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.
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It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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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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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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Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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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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Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
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There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
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I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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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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