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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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The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back…
— Albert Camus
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Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of…
— George Carlin
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Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.
— Emile M. Cioran
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If one is devoid of hope and thanksgiving, he cannot for long remain sinless, for he will, in despair, have slackened his…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.
— Abba Eban
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To attempt social reform, educational reform, industrial expansion, the moral improvement of the race without aiming, first and foremost, at political freedom…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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The fatal futility of Fact.
— Henry James
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The mind lives through more, and the more cannot be fulfilled; that is impossible. IT ENDS IN TEARS. Every desire ends in…
— Rajneesh
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What is hope but futility for moments stood on end.
— Unknown Author
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I tell myself that I had simply better accept the fact that the death penalty is here to stay in our society,…
— Helen Prejean
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Voting is actually an exercise in futility and only used to convey false credibility to a controlled political system totally divorced from…
— Ron Holland
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