Denis Diderot Quotes

French - Editor | October 5, 1713 - July 31, 1784

Good music is very close to primitive language.

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

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

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We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.

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The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.

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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.

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There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.

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We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.

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Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.

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