Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
DENIS DIDEROTPoetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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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.
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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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First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.
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All children are essentially criminal.
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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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If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can’t deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
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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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There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
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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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First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.
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Only the bad man is alone.
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All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one’s fatherland, which is perishable?
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