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Denis Diderot Quote: “There are two public prosecutors, and one of them is at your door, punishing crimes against society; the other is nature herself. She is familiar with all those vices that escape the law.”

151. “There are two public prosecutors, and one of them is at your door, punishing crimes against society; the other is nature herself. She is familiar with all those vices that escape the law.”

— Denis Diderot

Denis Diderot Quote: “Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.”

152. “Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.”

— Denis Diderot

Denis Diderot Quote: “The best order of things, as I see it, is the one that includes me; to hell with the most perfect of worlds, if I’m not part of it.”

153. “The best order of things, as I see it, is the one that includes me; to hell with the most perfect of worlds, if I’m not part of it.”

— Denis Diderot

Denis Diderot Quote: “The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.”

154. “The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.”

— Denis Diderot

Denis Diderot Quote: “Are convents so essential to the constitution of a state? Did Jesus Christ institute monks and nuns? Can the Church really not do without them? What need has the bridegroom of so many foolish virgins, and what need has the human race of so many victims?”

155. “Are convents so essential to the constitution of a state? Did Jesus Christ institute monks and nuns? Can the Church really not do without them? What need has the bridegroom of so many foolish virgins, and what need has the human race of so many victims?”

— Denis Diderot

Denis Diderot Quote: “In order to get as much fame as one’s father one has to much more able than he.”

156. “In order to get as much fame as one’s father one has to much more able than he.”

— Denis Diderot

Denis Diderot Quote: “You are going to say that I am amusing myself and that because I do not know what to do with my two travellers any more, I am throwing myself into allegory, which is the usual recourse of sterile minds.”

157. “You are going to say that I am amusing myself and that because I do not know what to do with my two travellers any more, I am throwing myself into allegory, which is the usual recourse of sterile minds.”

— Denis Diderot

Denis Diderot Quote: “If one of them appears in company, he’s a grain of yeast which ferments and gives back to everyone some part of his natural individuality. He shakes things up. He agitates us.”

158. “If one of them appears in company, he’s a grain of yeast which ferments and gives back to everyone some part of his natural individuality. He shakes things up. He agitates us.”

— Denis Diderot

Denis Diderot Quote: “Whatever dressing one gives to mushrooms, to whatever sauces our Apiciuses put them, they are not really good but to be sent back to the dungheap where they are born.”

159. “Whatever dressing one gives to mushrooms, to whatever sauces our Apiciuses put them, they are not really good but to be sent back to the dungheap where they are born.”

— Denis Diderot

Denis Diderot Quote: “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.”

160. “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

Denis Diderot Quote: “The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.”

161. “The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.”

— Denis Diderot

Denis Diderot Quote: “One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.”

162. “One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.”

— Denis Diderot

Denis Diderot Quote: “The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.”

163. “The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.”

— Denis Diderot

Denis Diderot Quote: “Le public ne sait pas toujours de sirer le vrai. Thepublicdoesnot alwaysknowhow todesirethetruth.”

164. “Le public ne sait pas toujours de sirer le vrai. Thepublicdoesnot alwaysknowhow todesirethetruth.”

— Denis Diderot

Denis Diderot Quote: “Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.”

165. “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

Denis Diderot Quote: “Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it.”

166. “Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it.”

— Denis Diderot

Denis Diderot Quote: “If it became customary to go out into the street stark naked I should not be the first nor the last to conform.”

167. “If it became customary to go out into the street stark naked I should not be the first nor the last to conform.”

— Denis Diderot

Denis Diderot Quote: “The best order of things, to my way of thinking, is the one I was meant to be part of, and to hell with the most perfect of worlds if I am not of it.”

168. “The best order of things, to my way of thinking, is the one I was meant to be part of, and to hell with the most perfect of worlds if I am not of it.”

— Denis Diderot

Denis Diderot Quote: “To rot under marble or to rot under earth is still to rot.”

169. “To rot under marble or to rot under earth is still to rot.”

— Denis Diderot

Denis Diderot Quote: “How did they meet? By chance, like everyone else. What were their names? What’s it to you? Where did they come from? The nearest place. Where were they going? Do we know where we’re going? What did they say? The master said nothing; and Jacques said that his captain said that everything good and bad that happens to us down here was written up there.”

170. “How did they meet? By chance, like everyone else. What were their names? What’s it to you? Where did they come from? The nearest place. Where were they going? Do we know where we’re going? What did they say? The master said nothing; and Jacques said that his captain said that everything good and bad that happens to us down here was written up there.”

— Denis Diderot

Denis Diderot Quote: “Now look, my friend, if you come to think it out you will find that in all things our real opinion is not the one from which we have never wavered, but the one to which we have most regularly returned.”

171. “Now look, my friend, if you come to think it out you will find that in all things our real opinion is not the one from which we have never wavered, but the one to which we have most regularly returned.”

— Denis Diderot

Denis Diderot Quote: “This is how I spend my time. A eight o’clock, dark or light, I get up. I have my two cups of tea. Fair weather or foul, I open my window and take the air. Then I shut myself up and read... Those writers who can charm away our boredom, who ravish us from ourselves, whom nature has endowed with a magic wand which no sooner touches us than we forget our troubles and the light enters the dark places of the soul and we are reconciled to living – they are the only true benefactors of humanity.”

172. “This is how I spend my time. A eight o’clock, dark or light, I get up. I have my two cups of tea. Fair weather or foul, I open my window and take the air. Then I shut myself up and read... Those writers who can charm away our boredom, who ravish us from ourselves, whom nature has endowed with a magic wand which no sooner touches us than we forget our troubles and the light enters the dark places of the soul and we are reconciled to living – they are the only true benefactors of humanity.”

— Denis Diderot

Denis Diderot Quote: “If we love truth more than the fine arts, let us pray to God for some iconoclasts.”

173. “If we love truth more than the fine arts, let us pray to God for some iconoclasts.”

— Denis Diderot

Denis Diderot Quote: “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.”

174. “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

Denis Diderot Quote: “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.”

175. “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

Denis Diderot Quote: “En ge ne ral, plus un peuple est civilise, poli, moins ses moeurs sont poe tiques; tout s’affaiblit en s’adoucissant. Ingeneral, themore civilized and refinedthepeople, the less poetic are its morals; everything weakens as it mellows.”

176. “En ge ne ral, plus un peuple est civilise, poli, moins ses moeurs sont poe tiques; tout s’affaiblit en s’adoucissant. Ingeneral, themore civilized and refinedthepeople, the less poetic are its morals; everything weakens as it mellows.”

— Denis Diderot

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