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“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
― Voltaire

“Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion!
I write to make people anxious and miserable and to
worsen their indigestion.”
― Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns

“The day he moved out was terrible –
That evening she went through hell.
His absence wasn’t a problem
But the corkscrew had gone as well.”
― Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns

“At lunchtime I bought a huge orange
The size of it made us all laugh.
I peeled it and shared it with Robert and Dave—
They got quarters and I had a half.

And that orange it made me so happy,
As ordinary things often do
Just lately. The shopping. A walk in the park
This is peace and contentment. It's new.

The rest of the day was quite easy.
I did all my jobs on my list
And enjoyed them and had some time over.
I love you. I'm glad I exist.”
― Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns

“Those who stand for nothing fall for everything.”
― Alexander Hamilton, Writings

“Então, se estás demasiado cansado para falar, senta-te ao meu lado porque eu, também, sou fluente em silêncio.”
― R. Arnold

“So, if you are too tired to speak, sit next to me, because I, too, am fluent in silence.”
― R. Arnold

“People stop thinking when they cease to read.”
― Denis Diderot

“How had they met? By chance, like everybody else. What were there names? What's it to you? Where were they coming from? From the nearest place. Where were they going? Does anyone really know where they're going?”
― Denis Diderot

“I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards which we must work is either to extend the boundaries of the patches of light, or to increase their number. One of these tasks falls to the creative genius; the other requires a sort of sagacity combined with perfectionism.”
― Denis Diderot, Thoughts on the Interpretation of Nature and Other Philosophical Works

“El pueblo, eterno esclavo de los tiranos que lo oprimen, de los bribones que lo engañan y de los bufones que lo divierten.”
― Denis Diderot, Jacques the Fatalist

“Indeed, the purpose of an encyclopedia is to collect knowledge disseminated around the globe; to set forth its general system to the men with whom we live, and transmit it to those who will come after us, so that the work of preceding centuries will not become useless to the centuries to come; and so that our offspring, becoming better instructed, will at the same time become more virtuous and happy, and that we should not die without having rendered a service to the human race in the future years to come.”
― Denis Diderot

“Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.”
― Denis Diderot

“In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.”
― Denis Diderot

“أليس شيئاً مزعجاً! فهم يذمّون الحياةَ من الصصبح حتى المساء، ولا يستطيعون عقد العزم على مغادرتها!
أيكون السبب أن الحياة الراهنة ليست في مجملها بالشيء الرديء ، أم أنهم يخشون حياة قادمة أسوأ منها”
― Denis Diderot, Jacques the Fatalist

“آدمی شربت دروغی را که در تملق او باشد یک جرعه می‌نوشد و حرف حق را که برایش تلخ است، قطره‌قطره. در ثانی، ما چاپلوسان قیافه‌مان حق به جانب و صادق است.”
― Denis Diderot, Le Neveu de Rameau

“Bizim kadar budala olmayanları akıllı saymayız.”
― Denis Diderot, Le Neveu de Rameau

“There comes a moment when nearly all young girls and young boys become melancholic. They are disturbed by a vague uneasiness which extends to everything and can find no consolation. They look for solitude. They weep. The silence of the cloister moves them and the image of peace which seems to reign in religious houses seduces them. They mistake the first movements of their developing emotions for the voice of God calling them and it is at the precise moment when nature is calling to them that they embrace a life which is contrary to the laws of nature.”
― Denis Diderot, Jacques the Fatalist: And His Master

“Ne pourrait−on pas dire que toutes les religions du monde ne sont que des sectes de la religion naturelle, et que les juifs, les chrétiens, les musulmans, les païens même ne sont que des naturalistes hérétiques et schismatiques ?”
― Denis Diderot, De la suffisance de la religion naturelle

“Nous aimons, sans nous en douter, tout ce qui nous livre à nos penchants, nous séduit et excuse notre faiblesse.”
― Denis Diderot, Diderot on Art, Volume II: The Salon of 1767

“We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.”
― Denis Diderot

“No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.”
― Denis Diderot

“People of North America: may the example of all those nations that have preceded you, and especially that of your motherland, be your guide. Beware the abundance of gold that brings about the corruption of morals and the scorn of law; beware of an unbalanced distribution of wealth that will produce a small number of opulent citizens and a horde of citizens in poverty...”
― Denis Diderot (1713-1784)

“If we love truth more than the fine arts, let us pray to God for some iconoclasts.”
― Denis Diderot

“To rot under marble or to rot under earth is still to rot.”
― Denis Diderot, Le Neveu de Rameau

“The best order of things, to my way of thinking, is the one I was meant to be part of, and to hell with the most perfect of worlds if I am not of it.”
― Denis Diderot, Rameau's Nephew / D'Alembert's Dream