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.
DENIS DIDEROTWe are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.
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Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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There are cats and cats.
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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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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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Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself to prompting us to great and generous actions?
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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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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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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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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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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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