Quotes by Denis Diderot

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little...

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We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.

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We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings...

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Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in...

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To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble...

#Denis Diderot

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

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There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

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There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman...

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There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.

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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation...

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The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties...

#Denis Diderot

The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and...

#Denis Diderot