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Marquis de Sade has 138 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
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Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the…
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
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One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.
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Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
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It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a republican system and…
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Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous…
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once we observe that destruction…
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration; the most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those…
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Don't have children: they deform women's bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.
— Emile M. Cioran
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Among the numerous luxuries of the table...coffee may be considered as one of the most valuable. It excites cheerfulness without intoxication; and…
— Benjamin Franklin
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PASTIME, n. A device for promoting dejection. Gentle exercise for intellectual debility.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Auntie Phyl's last months in the care home were extra pieces. Age is unnecessary. Some of us, like my mother, are fortunate…
— Margaret Drabble
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The leading and characteristic features of the morbid state to which I would direct your attention are, anaemia, general languor and debility,…
— Thomas Addison
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The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.
— Christopher Lasch
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There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires…
— Novalis
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Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors…
— William Shakespeare
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Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors…
— William Shakespeare
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The debility to which Nature condemned women incontestably proves that her design is for man, who then more than ever enjoys his…
— Marquis De Sade
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