Imitation Quote by Marquis de Sade Download Open image ““It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.”” — Marquis de Sade ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Imitation Misfortune
“We either learn from our and other people’s mistakes, or we imitate them and learn the hard way.” — E.N. Joy Copy Share Image
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“What blurt is this about virtue and about vice? Evil propels me and reform of evil propels me, I stand indifferent, My gait is… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Your only vice is yourself. The worst of all. The really incurable one.” — Alfred Hayes Copy Share Image
“We do not despise all those with vices, but we do despise all those without a single virtue.” — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“He who wishes to preserve, often destroys, so that virtue seems vice, and vice seems virtue.” — Guglielmo Ferrero Copy Share Image
“it's not often in life that you can misbehave for the good of the cause” — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
“However you disguise it, this thing does not change: The perpetual struggle of Good and Evil.” — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“The people who influenced me the most were the ones who said I’d never make it. They gave me a thirst for revenge.” — Colin Mochrie Copy Share Image
“Evil is moral at it heart. The selection of vice over virtue; you can pretend not to know, you can rationalize, but you know… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“Most people indulged in their vices and clung to their virtues based on their responses to temptation and conflict, not because some Other within… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
What you call disorder is nothing else than one of the laws of the order you comprehend not and which you have erroneously named… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior? — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship. — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
“To enlighten mankind and improve its morals is the only lesson which we offer in this story. In reading it, may the world discover… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do. — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act? That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
The law which attempts a man's life [capital punishment] is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime--for a second crime is every day… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist. — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind. — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism,… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
every being is unique.god neva creates carbon copies,he alys creates originals.he is truly a creator.he neva repeats.but man goes on living in imitation.we are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You go into extinction by being obsessed about becoming something else and then travelling in the wrong car while your real self keeps waiting… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Obviously I don't play the same way as Peter, but I could do a passable imitation of Peter Green; if you gave me a… — Gary Moore Copy Share Image
“Imitation and custom are the spring of almost all human action. The cause of it is that men fight shy of all and any… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The method of not erring is sought by all the world. The logicians profess to guide it, the geometricians alone attain it, and apart… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We have lost the good old British spirit. Instead we have American journalism and black-shirted buffoons making a cheap imitation of ice-cream sellers. — Oswald Mosley Copy Share Image
It is not the imitation that makes sons; it is sonship that makes imitators. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image