262 Quotes by Denis Diderot

I am wholly yours – you are everything to me; we will sustain each other in all the ills of life it may please fate to inflict upon us; you will soothe my troubles; I will comfort you in yours.

Distance is a great promoter of admiration.

A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.

How many wisely conceived projects have failed and will fail in the future! How many insane projects have succeeded and will succeed!

Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one’s fatherland, which is perishable?

Si en este mundo no se dice casi nada que sea escuchado como debiera, hay algo mucho peor, y es que no se hace casi nada que sea juzgado tal y como se ha hecho.

There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.

Isn’t it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?

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.