To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.
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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There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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Isn’t it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
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In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.
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Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
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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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Good music is very close to primitive language.
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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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We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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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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There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
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You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
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Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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