All Denis Diderot Quotes
Although 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.
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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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Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings.
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It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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The 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.
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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
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In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
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There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years.
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Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.
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