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.
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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We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
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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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There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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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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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself to prompting us to great and generous actions?
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Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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The wisest among us is very lucky never to have met the woman, be she beautiful or ugly, intelligent or stupid, who could drive him crazy enough to be fit to be put into an asylum.
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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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When one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz , one is tempted to throw away one’s books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner.
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The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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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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There are cats and cats.
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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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The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
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