An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.


Don Marquis

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Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.
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Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest...
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Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak...
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There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
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You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise the...
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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other,...
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Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.
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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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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but...
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All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with ...
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It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues use...
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How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is...
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Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot t...
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Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strengt...
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Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once...
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.
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We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.
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Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is be...
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Evil is a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed bef...
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Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adult...
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Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
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The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every c...
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Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call...
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Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman i...
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Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acqu...
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Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed th...
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I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none oth...
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So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to...
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Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withsta...
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