There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
DENIS DIDEROTThere are cats and cats.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.
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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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There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
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There are cats and cats.
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There are things I can’t force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
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How easy it is to tell tales!
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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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Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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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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In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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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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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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