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The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.

Denis Diderot

People

Lovers

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

Denis Diderot

Blood

Christ

The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

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.

The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.

Sentences are like sharp nails, which force truth upon our memories.

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.

The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

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