Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
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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To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
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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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From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can’t deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
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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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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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The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
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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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People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you’ve got to keep your feet warm.
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