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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.


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MARQUIS DE SADE Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
MARQUIS DE SADE Those who think they have no need of others become unreasonable.
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...
MARQUIS DE SADE It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others
MARQUIS DE SADE My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, wit...
MARQUIS DE SADE Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather...
MARQUIS DE SADE Necessity delivers us from the embarrassment of choice
VAUVENARGUES MARQUIS DE All men are born truthful,and die liars.
VAUVENARGUES MARQUIS DE All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with ...
MARQUIS DE SADE Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of...
MARQUIS DE SADE The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most ...
VAUVENARGUES MARQUIS DE Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because y...
MARQUIS DE SADE It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
MARQUIS DE SADE Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of whic...
MARQUIS DE SADE All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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.
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