"Are wars anything but the means whereby a……" — Marquis de Sade
"Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?"
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135 Quotes by Marquis de Sade
Marquis de Sade has 135 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a republican…
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Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece…
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once we observe…
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration; the most extraordinary, the most bizarre…
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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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Our praying, to be strong, must be buttressed by holy living. The life of faith perfects the prayer of faith.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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In two novels written forty years apart, a man and a woman tell stories of their love. . . .…
— Isabel Colegate
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect…
— John Roberts
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The campaign in Iraq illustrates the continuing progress of military technology and tactics, but if there is a single overriding…
— Wesley Clark
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Being established in my life, buttressed by my thinking nature, fastened down in this transcendental field which was opened for…
— Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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Man must be arched and buttressed from within, else the temple wavers to the dust.
— Marcus Aurelius
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To be sure, boxing has always been, at best, a shady and sometimes cutthroat business, buttressed by hype and tomfoolery…
— Dan Hill
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