More from Denis Diderot

  1. To do his duty somehow, always to speak well of the Prior, and let the world go its own way.
  2. Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt …
  3. The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
  4. If I had believed him, everything would have been turned upside down... all would have been turned topsy-turvy to make room for impractical…
  5. 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…
  6. Diderot took the ground that, if orthodox religion be true Christ was guilty of suicide. Having the power to defend himself he should have …
  7. There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
  8. Of course it would not do for the church to allow a man to die in peace who had added to the intellectual wealth of the world. The moment D…

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