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Marquis de Sade

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MARQUIS DE SADE But a wife..."
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MARQUIS DE SADE Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.
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MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES All grand thoughts come from the heart.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.
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MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES Give help rather than advice.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES Strength lies not in defence but in attack.
MARQUIS DE ACERBA Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.
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MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
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MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.
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MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
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MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.
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MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE Though my conduct on the 10th of August 1792 was the act of my life of which I have most reason to b...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE It is necessary above all that the citizens, who have rallied round the constitution, should be assu...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE The American women are very pretty and have great simplicity of character, and the extreme neatness ...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE I had displeased the jacobins by blaming their aristocratic usurpation of legitimate powers; the pri...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE We still are pestered by two parties: the aristocratic, which is panting for a counter revolution, a...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE I became obnoxious to the Jacobins because I reprobated their aristocracy, which aimed at usurping a...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE I experience for the American officers and soldiers that friendship which arises from having shared ...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE The king knows with what ardor and perseverance I have at all times been devoted to the cause of lib...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE Our articles of confederation ought to be revised and measures immediately taken to invigorate the C...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE The Emperor Napoleon, ascending gradually from his post of national magistrate to seat himself upon ...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE I am able to say that I was very much liked at the school. I even had quite some ascendancy over my ...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE Do not let us despair of the cause of liberty: it is still dear to the hearts of Frenchmen, and we s...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE No man can be subject to any laws, excepting those which have received the assent of himself or his ...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE From an early period, I had the happiness to rank among the foremost in the American Revolution. In ...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clerg...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE Defender of the liberty that I idolize, myself more free than anyone, in coming as a friend to offer...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE Nature has made men free and equal. The distinctions necessary for social order are only founded on ...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE One time, I was given an essay topic: to describe a perfect horse, whom the mere sight of the rider&...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE May these happy United States attain that complete splendour and prosperity which will illustrate th...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE The Huron and Iroquois forests are peopled by my friends; with me, the despots of Europe and their c...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each p...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE Few maxims are true in every respect
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