"The heart deceives, because it is never anything……" — Marquis De Sade
"The heart deceives, because it is never anything but the expression of the minds miscalculations I dont know what the heart is, not I: I only use the word to denote the minds frailties."
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135 Quotes by Marquis De Sade
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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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For love deceives the best of woman kind.
— Homer
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That which deceives us and does us harm, also undeceives us and does us good.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
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The worst sinners, according to Jesus, are not the harlots and publicans, but the religious leaders with their insistence on…
— Hugh Nibley
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Color deceives continuously.
— Josef Albers
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Let weak and frail man come here suppliantly to adore the Sacrament of Christ, not to discuss high things, or…
— Paul of the Cross
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Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The man who deceives shows more justice than he who does not
— Gorgias
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Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
— Plato
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Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
— Plato
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After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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One does not deceive oneself about the consequences of one's acts; one deceives oneself about the ease with which one…
— John Edward
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The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of…
— Alma Gluck
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