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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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Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission.
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Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favour.
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[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to…
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Away, you mouldy rogue, away!
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As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.
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I am bewitched with the rogue's company. If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be…
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The point of serving your country is not to do your own thing or to go rogue, but to work as part…
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I'm The Only Entity On Earth, Other Than Rogue States, That Has Received An Apology From The White House
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