There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
DENIS DIDEROTWandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: ‘My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.’ This stranger is a theologian.
DENIS DIDEROTWe are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
DENIS DIDEROTMy ideas are my whores.
DENIS DIDEROTPower 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.
DENIS DIDEROTPoetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
DENIS DIDEROTI can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
DENIS DIDEROTJacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.
DENIS DIDEROTThere are cats and cats.
DENIS DIDEROTThe Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
DENIS DIDEROTPhilosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
DENIS DIDEROTWhen one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz , one is tempted to throw away one’s books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner.
DENIS DIDEROTWatch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
DENIS DIDEROTHe whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
DENIS DIDEROTIt has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.
DENIS DIDEROTBad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one’s innocence with the loss of one’s prejudices.
DENIS DIDEROT