It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.
DENIS DIDEROTTo 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.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
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I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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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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Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
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At an early age I sucked up the milk of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato and Euripides, diluted with that of Moses and the prophets.
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Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
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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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Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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How easy it is to tell tales!
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There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
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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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