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Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
Denis DiderotDenis Diderot 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.
Denis DiderotDenis Diderot A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it. Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
Denis DiderotDenis Diderot My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.
Denis DiderotDenis Diderot It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.
Denis DiderotDenis Diderot Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
Denis DiderotDenis Diderot One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
Denis DiderotDenis Diderot Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.
Denis DiderotDenis Diderot 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.
Denis DiderotDenis Diderot I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
Denis DiderotDenis Diderot 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.
Denis DiderotDenis Diderot Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
Denis DiderotDenis Diderot All children are essentially criminal.
Denis DiderotDenis Diderot If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
Denis DiderotDenis Diderot To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.
Denis DiderotDenis Diderot Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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