You have to make it happen.
DENIS DIDEROTEvil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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Isn’t it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
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If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the “enthusiasm for truth and justice” using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.
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Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.
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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.
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You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.
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The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre
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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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Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
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Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one’s innocence with the loss of one’s prejudices.
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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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Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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