When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
DENIS DIDEROTThere are cats and cats.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
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Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
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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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If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.
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One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
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Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
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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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If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.
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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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The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
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