All children are essentially criminal.
DENIS DIDEROTI have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
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Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it.
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Good music is very close to primitive language.
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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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One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you’ve got to keep your feet warm.
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He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
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You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
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Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.
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It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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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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