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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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Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs. – 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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It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. – Denis Diderot

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Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose. – Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist

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The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from custom. – Michel de Montaigne, translated

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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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