Virtue is praised but hated. People run away from it for it is ice-cold and in this world you must keep your feet warm. Denis Diderot Philosophy
Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to. Denis Diderot
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. Denis Diderot
One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures. Denis Diderot