If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the “enthusiasm for truth and justice” using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.
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’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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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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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
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Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
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For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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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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When one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz , one is tempted to throw away one’s books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner.
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If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
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No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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At an early age I sucked up the milk of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato and Euripides, diluted with that of Moses and the prophets.
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There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man’s afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
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Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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