Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
DENIS DIDEROTThe possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
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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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There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.
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No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
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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 you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
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The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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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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Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
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Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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The world is the house of the strong.
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