There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
DENIS DIDEROTIn general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one’s fatherland, which is perishable?
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In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
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What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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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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Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.
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The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
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It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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There are cats and cats.
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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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Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.
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In order to get as much fame as one’s father one has to much more able than he.
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What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.
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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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It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
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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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One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.
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One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.
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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
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