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Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth (Denis Diderot Quotes)
If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal (Denis Diderot Quotes)
It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all (Denis Diderot Quotes)
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest (Denis Diderot Quotes)
Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad (Denis Diderot Quotes)
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 (Denis Diderot Quotes)
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it (Denis Diderot Quotes)
People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm (Denis Diderot Quotes)
Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey (Denis Diderot Quotes)
The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action (Denis Diderot Quotes)
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 (Denis Diderot Quotes)
There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint (Denis Diderot Quotes)
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 (Denis Diderot Quotes)
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 Quotes)
I believe in God, although I live very happily with atheists... It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley; but not at all so to believe or not in God (Denis Diderot Quotes)
To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him (Denis Diderot Quotes)
Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the Earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower (Denis Diderot Quotes)
Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste (Denis Diderot Quotes)
Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high (Denis Diderot Quotes)
How did they meet? By chance, like everybody... Where did they come from? From the nearest place. Where were they going? Do we know where we are going? (Denis Diderot Quotes)
Virtue is praised, but hated. People run from it, for it is ice cold and in this world you have to keep your feet warm (Denis Diderot Quotes)
One can fool some men, or fool all men in some places and times, but one cannot fool all men in all places and ages (Denis Diderot Quotes)
Bad company is as instructive as debauchery: one is indemnified for the loss of innocence by the loss of prejudice (Denis Diderot Quotes)
In order to get as much fame as one’s father one has to be much more able than he (Denis Diderot Quotes)
Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself to prompting us to great and generous actions? (Denis Diderot Quotes)
Women swallow at one mouthful the lie that flatters, and drink drop by drop the truth that is bitter (Denis Diderot Quotes)
To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly (Denis Diderot Quotes)
I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered (Denis Diderot Quotes)
If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false (Denis Diderot Quotes)
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)