How easy it is to tell tales!
DENIS DIDEROTNo man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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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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Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: ‘My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.’ This stranger is a theologian.
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Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Every man has his dignity. I’m willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
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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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Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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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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The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
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Only the bad man is alone.
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Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.
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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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Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
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