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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Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
DENIS DIDEROTAlthough a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.
DENIS DIDEROTIt is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
DENIS DIDEROTThe decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
DENIS DIDEROTMy friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.
DENIS DIDEROTTo prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
DENIS DIDEROTA thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it. Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
DENIS DIDEROTWhat is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
DENIS DIDEROTJacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.
DENIS DIDEROTOne composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
DENIS DIDEROTIf you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
DENIS DIDEROTThe possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
DENIS DIDEROTSuperstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
DENIS DIDEROTOne may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.
DENIS DIDEROTEvil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
DENIS DIDEROTDisturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
DENIS DIDEROT