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.
DENIS DIDEROTWatch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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Whatever dressing one gives to mushrooms, to whatever sauces our Apiciuses put them, they are not really good but to be sent back to the dungheap where they are born.
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Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
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In order to get as much fame as one’s father one has to much more able than he.
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Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.
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In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
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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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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.
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The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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My ideas are my whores.
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