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Quote by Denis Diderot
People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It

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

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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

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. – Denis Diderot

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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. – Denis Diderot

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People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite. – Taylor Caldwell

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When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death – that is heroism. – Robert Green Ingersoll

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What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. – Dave Barry

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Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws. – Jim Morrison

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