Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
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Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
DENIS DIDEROT
There are cats and cats.
DENIS DIDEROT
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.
DENIS DIDEROT
Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
DENIS DIDEROT
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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The world is the house of the strong.
DENIS DIDEROT
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
DENIS DIDEROT
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.
DENIS DIDEROT
How easy it is to tell tales!
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He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Whatever 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.
DENIS DIDEROT
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
DENIS DIDEROT
It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
DENIS DIDEROT
There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
DENIS DIDEROT
It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties.
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One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.
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