There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
Denis DiderotTo describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.
Denis DiderotWe swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
Denis Diderot