Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
DENIS DIDEROTThere are cats and cats.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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Good music is very close to primitive language.
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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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Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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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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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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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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The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.
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Only the bad man is alone.
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He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
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For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.
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I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.
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