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What annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot complain?


Marquis De Custine

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FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.
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PROVERB The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
ALAN WATTS Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
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MARQUIS DE SADE One promises much, to avoid giving little.
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MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES Woman's destiny is to be wanton, like the bitch, the she-wolf; she must belong to all who claim her.
MARQUIS DE SADE Those who can bear all can dare all.
VAUVENARGUES MARQUIS DE Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cann...
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MARQUIS DE CONDORCET Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.
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VAUVENARGUES MARQUIS DE Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.
VAUVENARGUES MARQUIS DE We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, an...
VAUVENARGUES MARQUIS DE I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and th...
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MARQUIS DE SADE “All creatures are born isolated and have no need of one another."
MARQUIS DE SADE To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simp...
MARQUIS DE SADE It is only by enlarging the scope of one's tastes and one's fantasies, by sacrificing everything to ...
MARQUIS DE SADE The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpleton...
MARQUIS DE SADE In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
MARQUIS DE SADE The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind
MARQUIS DE SADE 'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolitio...
MARQUIS DE SADE The exercise of natural rights has no limits but such as will ensure their enjoyment to other member...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
MARQUIS DE SADE Few maxims are true in every respect
VAUVENARGUES MARQUIS DE More are taken in by hope than by cunning
VAUVENARGUES MARQUIS DE More fortunes are made by energy than prudence
VAUVENARGUES MARQUIS DE We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.
VAUVENARGUES MARQUIS DE The counsels of old age give light without heat, like the sun in winter.
VAUVENARGUES MARQUIS DE The heaviest object in the world is the body of the woman you have ceased to love.
VAUVENARGUES MARQUIS DE It is difficult to esteem a man as he desires to be esteemed
VAUVENARGUES MARQUIS DE Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modes...
VAUVENARGUES MARQUIS DE Great success is commoner than great abilities.
VAUVENARGUES MARQUIS DE Our opinion of others is not so variable as our opinion of ourselves.
VAUVENARGUES MARQUIS DE The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures
VAUVENARGUES MARQUIS DE Give help rather than advice.
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