Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.
DENIS DIDEROTTo say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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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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The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.
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Every man has his dignity. I’m willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
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There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.
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When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
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The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre
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When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
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If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the “enthusiasm for truth and justice” using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.
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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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The world is the house of the strong.
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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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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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Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.
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