The world is the house of the strong.
DENIS DIDEROTWhen 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.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties.
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Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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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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Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.
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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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No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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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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All children are essentially criminal.
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Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.
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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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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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Isn’t it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
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There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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