There are cats and cats.
DENIS DIDEROTWe are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.
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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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I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.
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There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
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Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.
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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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Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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Good music is very close to primitive language.
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