There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it. – Denis Diderot
People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world youve got to keep your feet warm. – Denis Diderot
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. – Denis Diderot
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. – Denis Diderot