Only the bad man is alone.
DENIS DIDEROTIt has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.
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Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Whatever dressing one gives to mushrooms, to whatever sauces our Apiciuses put them, they are not really good but to be sent back to the dungheap where they are born.
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What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.
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Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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I discuss with myself questions of politics, love, taste, or philosophy. I let my mind rove wantonly, give it free rein to followany idea, wise or mad that may present itself. My ideas are my harlots.
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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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For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.
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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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Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.
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Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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