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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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The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion. – Denis Diderot

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Fanaticism
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Denis Diderot
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Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control. – Denis Diderot

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

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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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Without doubt half the ethical rules they din into our ears are designed to keep us at work. – Llewelyn Powys

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