More From Denis Diderot
- "Good music is very close to primitive language."
- "Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it."
- "The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population."
More In Happiness
- "Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable."― Samuel Johnson
- "A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States."― James Madison
- "It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is."― Desiderius Erasmus