The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
DENIS DIDEROT
Good music is very close to primitive language.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
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And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.
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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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There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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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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Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.
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The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre
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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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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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Isn’t it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
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