The world is the house of the strong.
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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It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties.
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We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
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He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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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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My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.
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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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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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What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.
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We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
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If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can’t deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
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A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it. Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
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For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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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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