"Happiness is ideal, it is the work of…" — Marquis de Sade
"Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination."
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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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Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be…
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
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He who hath many friends hath none.
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What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
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Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or…
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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
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Friendship is essentially a partnership.
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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
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In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
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