Denis Diderot's Quote - There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenien

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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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Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it. – Denis Diderot

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The best doctor is the one you run to and cant find. – Denis Diderot

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Distance is a great promoter of admiration! – 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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The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy. – Goethe

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Why should moral distinction be made between death by the spirochete and death by the streptococcus? – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962) [Spirochete because of its association with

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

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