"Were he supreme, were he mighty, were he……" — Marquis de Sade
"Were he supreme, were he mighty, were he just, were he good, this God you tell me about, would it be through enigmas and buffooneries he would wish to teach me to serve and know him?"
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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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Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.
— Honore de Balzac
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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
— Jean Baudrillard
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Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
— Winston Churchill
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A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
— Diane Arbus
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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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With the strength of his spiritual sight and insight the distance, and as it were the space, around man continually…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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If knowing answers to life's questions is absolutely necessary to you, then forget the journey. You will never make it,…
— Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
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By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analyzing the observations that I had made, I…
— M.C. Escher
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The definitive resolution of the UFO enigma will not come about unless and until the problem is subjected to open…
— Peter A. Sturrock
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It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application,…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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It has been my firm belief, based on my research and investigations over the past half century, that UFOs and…
— George Fawcett
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The abstraction, ostensibly, is simply for me the penetration of something that is more profound in many ways than rigidity…
— Unknown Author
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