To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Il ne faut point donner d'esprit a' ses personnages; mais savoir les placer dans des circonstances qui leur en donnent. You should… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Those authors into whose hands nature has placed a magic wand, with which they no sooner touch us than we forget the… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
But if you will recall the history of our civil troubles, you will see half the nation bathe itself, out of piety, in the… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
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… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
“One swallows the lie that flatters, but sips the bitter truth drop by drop.” — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
“Nie wiem, co to zasady, chyba że tak nazywamy prawidła, które przypisuje się innym, a nie sobie. Myślę tak, a nie umiałbym się powstrzymać… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
