Denis Diderot Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.

  Denis Diderot

  Inspirational, Vices, Virtue

  "Thesaurus of Epigrams: A New Classified Collection of Witty Remarks, Bon Mots and Toasts". Book by Edmund Fuller, 1942.

• It seems to me that if one had kept silence up to now regarding religion, people would still be submerged in the most grotesque and dangerous superstition ... regarding government, we would still be groaning under the bonds of feudal government ... regarding morals, we would still be having to learn what is virtue and what is vice. To forbid all these discussions, the only ones worthy of occupying a good mind, is to perpetuate the reign of ignorance and barbarism.

  Denis Diderot

  Ignorance, Government, People

• There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.

  Denis Diderot

  Justice, Atheism, Virtue

• In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.

  Denis Diderot

  Country, Believe, Vices

  "Selected Writings". Book by Lester G. Crocker, 1966.

• I am more affected by the attractions of virtue than by the deformities of vice; I turn gently away from the wicked and I fly to meet the good. If there is in a literary work, in a character, in a picture, in a statue, a beautiful spot, that is where my eyes rest; I see only that, I remember only that, all the rest is well-nigh forgotten. What becomes of me when the whole work is beautiful!

  Denis Diderot

  Beautiful, Character, Eye

• The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting, and serving his successor, whoever that successor may be, no matter how wicked or stupid.

  Denis Diderot

  Stupid, People, Wicked

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

• Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.

  Denis Diderot

  Art, Passion, Creativity

  "Diderot". Book by Otis Fellows, 1977.

• Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.

  Denis Diderot

  Integrity, Virtue, Evidence

• Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

  Denis Diderot

  Justice, Literature, Firsts

  "The Golden Treasury of Thought: A Gathering of Quotations from the Best Ancient and Modern Authors". Book by Theodore Taylor, p. 227, 1873.

• People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.

  Denis Diderot

  Death, Running, Hate

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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