Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
DENIS DIDEROTJacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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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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Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.
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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.
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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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The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.
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Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
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Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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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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Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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The wisest among us is very lucky never to have met the woman, be she beautiful or ugly, intelligent or stupid, who could drive him crazy enough to be fit to be put into an asylum.
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