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Jacques the Fatalist QUOTES

Jacques the Fatalist QUOTES

1 " Life is but a series of misunderstandings. "

― Denis Diderot , Jacques the Fatalist

2 " The fact is that she was terribly undressed and I was extremely undressed too. The fact is that I still had my hand where she didn't have anything and she had hers where the same wasn't quite true of me. The fact is that I found myself underneath her and consequently she found herself on top of me. "

― Denis Diderot , Jacques the Fatalist

3 " It is better to reveal a weakness than allow oneself be suspected of a vice. "

― Denis Diderot , Jacques the Fatalist

4 " No matter how much a man may study, reflect and meditate on all the books in the world, he is nothing more than a minor scribe unless he has read the great book. "

― Denis Diderot , Jacques the Fatalist

5 " The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac. "

― Denis Diderot , Jacques the Fatalist

6 " To speak to you frankly, Reader, I find that you are the more wicked of the two of us. How satisfied would I be if it were as easy for me to protect myself from your calumny as it is for you to protect yourself from the boredom or the danger of my work! "

― Denis Diderot , Jacques the Fatalist

7 " Ludzie, którzy coś powtarzają dwa razy, to głupcy mający za głupców tych, którzy ich słuchają "

― Denis Diderot , Jacques the Fatalist

8 " Master, master, you obviously haven’t thought about this at all. We only ever feel sorry for ourselves, believe me. "

― Denis Diderot , Jacques the Fatalist

9 " أدركتُ أن قول الحقيقة وحدها لا يكفي ، بل ينبغي أيضاً أن يكون طريفا "

― Denis Diderot , Jacques the Fatalist

10 " إنّ أول عهد قطعه على نفسيهما كائنان اثنان من لحم ودم، كان قرب صخرة انهارت فذهبت هباءً منثوراً. وقد أشهدا على ثبات عهدهما سماء لم تثبت أي لحظة على حال "

― Denis Diderot , Jacques the Fatalist

11 " أنا ألهو بأن أكتب الحماقات التي ترتكبونها تحت أسماء مستعارة. فحماقاتكم تضحكني وكتاباتي تعكر مزاجكم "

― Denis Diderot , Jacques the Fatalist

12 " Si en este mundo no se dice casi nada que sea escuchado como debiera, hay algo mucho peor, y es que no se hace casi nada que sea juzgado tal y como se ha hecho. "

― Denis Diderot , Jacques the Fatalist

13 " It was ordained that you would have the title to the thing and I would have the thing itself. "

― Denis Diderot , Jacques the Fatalist

14 " Because, without knowing what is written up above, none of us knows what we want or what we are doing, and we follow our whims which we call reason, or our reason which is often nothing but a dangerous whim which sometimes turns out well, sometimes badly. "

― Denis Diderot , Jacques the Fatalist

15 " And he added that prudence in no way assured us of success but consoled us and excused us in failure. "

― Denis Diderot , Jacques the Fatalist

16 " 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

17 " You are going to say that I am amusing myself and that because I do not know what to do with my two travellers any more, I am throwing myself into allegory, which is the usual recourse of sterile minds. "

― Denis Diderot , Jacques the Fatalist

18 " 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

19 " دور العاقل خطر بين المجانين "

― Denis Diderot , Jacques the Fatalist

20 " لا تدفع مُسبقاً أبداً إذا أردتَ أن لا تلقى خدمة سيئة "

― Denis Diderot , Jacques the Fatalist