People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you’ve got to keep your feet warm.
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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If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.
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The wisest among us is very lucky never to have met the woman, be she beautiful or ugly, intelligent or stupid, who could drive him crazy enough to be fit to be put into an asylum.
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Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.
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Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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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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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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We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Every man has his dignity. I’m willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
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Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Good music is very close to primitive language.
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