All children are essentially criminal.
DENIS DIDEROTSkepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
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Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.
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Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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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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Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
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To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.
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Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.
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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 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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Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Good music is very close to primitive language.
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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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