Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
DENIS DIDEROTDoctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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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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If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.
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Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it.
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Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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All children are essentially criminal.
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How easy it is to tell tales!
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Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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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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There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
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Good music is very close to primitive language.
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