Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.
DENIS DIDEROTThere are things I can’t force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
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He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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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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There are cats and cats.
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And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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The world is the house of the strong.
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First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.
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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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Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
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I am wholly yours – you are everything to me; we will sustain each other in all the ills of life it may please fate to inflict upon us; you will soothe my troubles; I will comfort you in yours.
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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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You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.
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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.
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Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre
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