Isn’t it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
DENIS DIDEROTEvery man has his dignity. I’m willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
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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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Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
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You have to make it happen.
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Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.
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The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.
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Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
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And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.
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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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What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.
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The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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