French - Novelist | June 2, 1740 - December 2, 1814
Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
Marquis de Sade
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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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What is more immoral than war?
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to achieve the designs it has for man.
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