The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.
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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You have to make it happen.
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My ideas are my whores.
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Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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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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There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
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One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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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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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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Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
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How easy it is to tell tales!
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If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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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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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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