Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one’s innocence with the loss of one’s prejudices.
DENIS DIDEROTWhatever dressing one gives to mushrooms, to whatever sauces our Apiciuses put them, they are not really good but to be sent back to the dungheap where they are born.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.
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No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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How easy it is to tell tales!
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Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
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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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We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
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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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Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
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Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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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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Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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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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There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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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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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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I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.
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From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Wandering 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.
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If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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The world is the house of the strong.
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Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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