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Laws Quotes by Marquis de Sade
- If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once we observe that destruction is so useful…
- What you call disorder is nothing else than one of the laws of the order you comprehend not and which you have erroneously named disorder…
- Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general…
- Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is…
- Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and…
- So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and…
- Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this…
- ...your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and afflicting punishments; hence,…
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- Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws. — Francis Bacon
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- If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold… — Abigail Adams
- The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as… — Mikhail Bakunin
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