It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
DENIS DIDEROTThere is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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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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Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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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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There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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The 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.
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I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.
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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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Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.
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Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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How easy it is to tell tales!
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Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
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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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Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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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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Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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