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A life lived with integrity even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shining star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.


Denis Waitley

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DENIS DIDEROT No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, a...
DENIS DIDEROT There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, refle...
DENIS DIDEROT Sentences are like sharp nails, which force truth upon our memories.
DENIS DIDEROT We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are stru...
DENIS DIDEROT The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
DENIS DIDEROT All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
DENIS DIDEROT Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.
DENIS DIDEROT There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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DENIS DIDEROT The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerou...
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DENIS DIDEROT The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.
DENIS DIDEROT The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties...
DENIS DIDEROT Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone...
DENIS DIDEROT The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this...
DENIS DIDEROT We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter ...
DENIS DIDEROT The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society ...
DENIS DIDEROT In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as fa...
DENIS DIDEROT Distance is a great promoter of admiration!
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DENIS DIDEROT Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can u...
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DENIS HEALEY There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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DENIS DIDEROT It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
DENIS DIDEROT When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can...
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