French - Novelist | June 2, 1740 - December 2, 1814
It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
Marquis de Sade
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They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.
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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
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To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
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The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.
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'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.
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Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?
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Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.
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