There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
DENIS DIDEROTThe best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the “enthusiasm for truth and justice” using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.
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First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.
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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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The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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In order to get as much fame as one’s father one has to much more able than he.
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We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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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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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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To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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The world is the house of the strong.
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Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: ‘My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.’ This stranger is a theologian.
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You have to make it happen.
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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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