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Virtue Quotes by Denis Diderot
- The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they…
- Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art…
- Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
- People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep…
- We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
- In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or…
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