For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
DENIS DIDEROTIsn’t it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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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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The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
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Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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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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Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.
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Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.
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Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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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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Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.
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We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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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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