If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.
DENIS DIDEROTI 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.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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My ideas are my whores.
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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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One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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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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To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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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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Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
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When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
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There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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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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