"In order to know virtue, we must first……" — Marquis de Sade
"In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice."
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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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More Acquaint Quotes
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one of 23 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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There is nothing obscure about the objectives of educational exchange. Its purpose is to acquaint Americans with the world as…
— J. William Fulbright
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Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars.
— Heraclitus
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The great object of Education should be commensurate with the object of life. It should be a moral one; to…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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And just as we acquaint ourselves with materials, just as we must understand functions, so we must become familiar with…
— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement.
— Leon Trotsky
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Acquaint yourself with fewer people, and as a result, you will backbite less frequently.
— Sufyan al-Thawri
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Temporary teams of trusted people are generally sent to all Departments and to major agencies of government to assist in…
— Richard V. Allen
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A new book is just like any new product, like a detergent. You have to acquaint people with it. They…
— Jacqueline Susann
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We don't have much time, so we don't teach them; we acquaint them with things that they can learn.
— Unknown Author
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The finest defense of character is correct action. Acquaint yourself with virtue, and you can expect proper treatment from those…
— Brandon Sanderson
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We must acquaint the youth to the realities of the world... we must tell them that millions of people around…
— Shirin Ebadi
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Of books in our time the variety is so voluminous, and they follow so fast from the press, that one…
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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