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Most Quotes by Marquis de Sade
- Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the executioners in Hell…
- The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
- In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration; the most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly…
- The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
- The primary and most beautiful of nature's qualities is motion
- Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
- All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost…
- Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds…
- The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of…
- Is it not a strange blindness on our part to teach publicly the techniques of warfare and to reward with medals those who prove to…
- To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
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- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
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- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
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- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
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- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster