"Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple,……" — Marquis de Sade
"Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace"
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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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An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.
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Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect…
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He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion…
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My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to…
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There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous,…
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The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top.
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The idea of restraining the legislative authority, in the means of providing for the national defense, is one of those…
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For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create…
— Plutarch
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Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel…
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No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as…
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