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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Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
DENIS DIDEROTThere are cats and cats.
DENIS DIDEROTThe most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.
DENIS DIDEROTThere is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
DENIS DIDEROTThe 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.
DENIS DIDEROTThe Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
DENIS DIDEROTGaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
DENIS DIDEROTThere’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
DENIS DIDEROTHow easy it is to tell tales!
DENIS DIDEROTOne composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
DENIS DIDEROTPeople praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you’ve got to keep your feet warm.
DENIS DIDEROTThe best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
DENIS DIDEROTWhen we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
DENIS DIDEROTThe general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
DENIS DIDEROTWhich is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one’s fatherland, which is perishable?
DENIS DIDEROTI can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
DENIS DIDEROT