If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
DENIS DIDEROTGratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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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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One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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You have to make it happen.
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The world is the house of the strong.
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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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Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
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Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
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People 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.
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All children are essentially criminal.
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When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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