Quote #86

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

More from Denis Diderot

  1. It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
  2. 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…
  3. The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
  4. The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
  5. Good music is very close to primitive language.
  6. To do his duty somehow, always to speak well of the Prior, and let the world go its own way.
  7. Gaiety - a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
  8. You have to make it happen.

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