To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
DENIS DIDEROTThe blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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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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All children are essentially criminal.
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All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
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Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it.
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When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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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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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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Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.
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The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
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There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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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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The world is the house of the strong.
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No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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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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