59 Quotations by Denis Diderot
- 21. Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

- 22. Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest

- 23. Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian ...

- 24. No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, a ...

- 25. No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, a ...

- 26. Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that ...

- 27. Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

- 28. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We r ...

- 29. Passions elevate the soul to great things.

- 30. Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that ...

- 31. People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this ...

- 32. Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

- 33. Sentences are like sharp nails, which force truth upon our memories.

- 34. Sentences are like sharp nails, which force truth upon our memories.

- 35. The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerou ...

- 36. The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.

- 37. The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.

- 38. The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority ...

- 39. The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed ...

- 40. The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it w ...

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