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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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It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. – Denis Diderot

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There are things I cant force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint. – Denis Diderot

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Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Morality is a private and costly luxury. – Henry B. Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

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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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Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons. – Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure, 1875

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