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Quote by Denis Diderot
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenien

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it. – Denis Diderot

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We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us. – Denis Diderot

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It is with flowers, as with moral qualities: the bright-coloured are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet-smelling. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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