It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.
DENIS DIDEROTGratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
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Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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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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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge, observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
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One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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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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It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties.
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Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
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Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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The world is the house of the strong.
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It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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