The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
DENIS DIDEROTScepticism is the first step towards truth.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
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Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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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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One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.
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I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.
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A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.
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What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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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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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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Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.
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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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