How easy it is to tell tales!
DENIS DIDEROTAnyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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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 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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Every man has his dignity. I’m willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
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I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.
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If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the “enthusiasm for truth and justice” using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.
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No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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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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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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There are cats and cats.
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The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
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The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
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We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man’s afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
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Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
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