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> [How old the world is! I walk between two eternities… What is my fleeting existence in comparison with that decaying rock, that valley digging its channel ever deeper, that forest that is tottering and those great masses above my head…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/denis-diderot/how-old-the-world-is-i-walk-between-two-eternities-what-is-my/)

[Denis Diderot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/denis-diderot/)

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> [The first promise exchanged by two beings of flesh was at the foot of a rock that was crumbling into dust; they took as witness for their constancy a sky that is not the same for a single instant; everything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/denis-diderot/the-first-promise-exchanged-by-two-beings-of-flesh-was-at-the-foot-of/)

[Denis Diderot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/denis-diderot/)

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## More by Denis Diderot

> [But if you will recall the history of our civil troubles, you will see half the nation bathe itself, out of piety, in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/denis-diderot/but-if-you-will-recall-the-history-of-our-civil-troubles-you-will-see/)

[Denis Diderot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/denis-diderot/)

> [One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/denis-diderot/one-declaims-endlessly-against-the-passions-one-imputes-all-of-man-s/)

[Denis Diderot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/denis-diderot/)

> [Time, matter, space - all, it may be, are no more than a point.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/denis-diderot/time-matter-space-all-it-may-be-are-no-more-than-a-point/)

[Denis Diderot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/denis-diderot/)

> [We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/denis-diderot/we-are-far-more-liable-to-catch-the-vices-than-the-virtues-of-our/)

[Denis Diderot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/denis-diderot/)

> [One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/denis-diderot/one-composition-is-meagre-though-it-has-many-figures-another-is-rich/)

[Denis Diderot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/denis-diderot/)

> [I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/denis-diderot/i-have-only-a-small-flickering-light-to-guide-me-in-the-darkness-of-a/)

[Denis Diderot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/denis-diderot/)

> [The world is the house of the strong.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/denis-diderot/the-world-is-the-house-of-the-strong/)

[Denis Diderot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/denis-diderot/)

> [“One swallows the lie that flatters, but sips the bitter truth drop by drop.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/denis-diderot/one-swallows-the-lie-that-flatters-but-sips-the-bitter-truth-drop-by/)

[Denis Diderot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/denis-diderot/)

> [There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/denis-diderot/there-is-less-harm-to-be-suffered-in-being-mad-among-madmen-than-in/)

[Denis Diderot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/denis-diderot/)

> [Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/denis-diderot/integrity-is-the-evidence-of-all-civil-virtues/)

[Denis Diderot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/denis-diderot/)

> [Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/denis-diderot/watch-out-for-the-fellow-who-talks-about-putting-things-in-order/)

[Denis Diderot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/denis-diderot/)

> [“Nie wiem, co to zasady, chyba że tak nazywamy prawidła, które przypisuje się innym, a nie sobie. Myślę tak, a nie umiałbym się powstrzymać…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/denis-diderot/nie-wiem-co-to-zasady-chyba-e-tak-nazywamy-prawid-a-kt-re-przypisuje/)

[Denis Diderot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/denis-diderot/)

> [There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/denis-diderot/there-is-no-good-father-who-would-want-to-resemble-our-heavenly-father/)

[Denis Diderot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/denis-diderot/)

> [Isn't it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/denis-diderot/isn-t-it-better-to-have-men-being-ungrateful-than-to-miss-a-chance-to/)

[Denis Diderot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/denis-diderot/)

> [A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/denis-diderot/a-nation-which-thinks-that-it-is-belief-in-god-and-not-good-law-which/)

[Denis Diderot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/denis-diderot/)

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