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First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can (Denis Diderot Quotes)
Tous les jours on couche avec des femmes qu’on n’aime pas, et l’on ne couche pas avec des femmes qu’on aime. Every day we sleep with women we do not love and don’t sleep with the women we do love (Denis Diderot Quotes)
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few (Denis Diderot Quotes)
The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac (Denis Diderot Quotes)
A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it... Skepticism is the first step toward truth (Denis Diderot Quotes)
Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one’s fatherland, which is perishable? (Denis Diderot Quotes)
There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death (Denis Diderot Quotes)
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 Diderot Quotes)
Every man has his dignity. I’m willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to (Denis Diderot Quotes)
His hands would plait the priest’s guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings (Denis Diderot Quotes)
In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go (Denis Diderot Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey (Denis Diderot Quotes)
One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man’s suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures (Denis Diderot Quotes)
Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things (Denis Diderot Quotes)
The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law (Denis Diderot Quotes)
The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned (Denis Diderot Quotes)
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled (Denis Diderot Quotes)
There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies (Denis Diderot Quotes)
Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control (Denis Diderot Quotes)
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter (Denis Diderot Quotes)
Man was born to live with his fellow human beings. Separate him, isolate him, his character will go bad, a thousand ridiculous affects will invade his heart, extravagant thoughts will germinate in his brain, like thorns in an uncultivated land (Denis Diderot Quotes)
No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason (Denis Diderot Quotes)
If your little savage were left to himself and be allowed to retain all his ignorance, he would in time join the infant’s reasoning to the grown man’s passion, he would strangle his father and sleep with his mother (Denis Diderot Quotes)
The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and... people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion (Denis Diderot Quotes)
The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dice box in hand, shaking the dice (Denis Diderot Quotes)
Isn’t it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good? (Denis Diderot Quotes)
Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones (Denis Diderot Quotes)
There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself (Denis Diderot Quotes)
What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth (Denis Diderot Quotes)