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MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE Do not calculate what I have done, for I shall accept no recompense. Calculate the public advantage,...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each porti...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE Any commands which Congress may have for me shall be cheerfully executed by one of their earliest so...
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MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE The good fortune of America is closely tied to the good fortune of all humanity.
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE I am astonished but not discouraged by my enormous responsibility. Devoted both from affection and d...
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MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE It is necessary above all that the citizens, who have rallied round the constitution, should be assu...
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MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE I had displeased the jacobins by blaming their aristocratic usurpation of legitimate powers; the pri...
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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...
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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...
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MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE I have found a unique opportunity to distinguish myself and to learn my trade. I am a general office...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE No person is more convinced than I am of the necessity of giving great splendour and energy to the g...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE The affairs of America I shall ever look upon as my first business whilst I am in Europe. Any confid...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE Paris is in a tranquil state; the infernal cabal that besieges me appears guided by foreigners. This...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE The continental troops have as much courage and real discipline as those that are opposed to them. T...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE An irresistible passion that would induce me to believe in innate ideas and the truth of prophecy ha...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE In America there are none poor, and none even that can be called peasants. Each citizen has some pro...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE I shall ask for the abolition for the punishment of death until I have the infallibility of human ju...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE The exercise of natural rights has no limits but such as will ensure their enjoyment to other member...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people....There are natural and imprescriptible rights ...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE Laws must be clear, precise, and uniform for all citizens.
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE During my last voyage to America, I enjoyed the happiness of seeing that revolution completed, and, ...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescriptible rights wh...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE Nothing hurts so much the interest and reputation of America as to hear of their intestine quarrels.
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE Let not ambition take possession of you; love the friends of the people, but reserve blind submissio...
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 I hope to see the bringing together of all the best educated people of the earth into a worldwide Co...
MARQUIS DE CONDORCET One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
MARQUIS DE SADE The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most ...
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES Ah, Eugénie, have done with virtues! Among the sacrifices that can be made to those counter...
MARQUIS DE SADE Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modes...
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES All grand thoughts come from the heart.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES Great thoughts always come from the heart.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
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.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
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MARQUIS DE SADE The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised...
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MARQUIS DE CONDORCET The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
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MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES The idle always have a mind to do something.
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MARQUIS DE SADE Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak...
MARQUIS DE SADE There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise the...
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other,...
MARQUIS DE SADE Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
MARQUIS DE SADE The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but...
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MARQUIS DE SADE It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues use...
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MARQUIS DE SADE Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strengt...
MARQUIS DE SADE Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
MARQUIS DE SADE If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once...
MARQUIS DE SADE The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
MARQUIS DE SADE We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.
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MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is be...
MARQUIS DE SADE Evil is a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed bef...
MARQUIS DE SADE Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adult...
MARQUIS DE SADE Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every c...
MARQUIS DE SADE Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call...
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MARQUIS DE SADE Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acqu...
MARQUIS DE SADE Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed th...
MARQUIS DE SADE I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none oth...
MARQUIS DE SADE So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to...
MARQUIS DE SADE Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withsta...
MARQUIS DE SADE What annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot complain?
MARQUIS DE CUSTINE The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master; as soon as they think t...
MARQUIS DE CUSTINE They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy ...
MARQUIS DE SADE There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, the...
MARQUIS DE SADE Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
MARQUIS DE SADE Those who can bear all can dare all.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead th...
MARQUIS DE SADE Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possib...
MARQUIS DE SADE Obscurity is the realm of error.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate...
MARQUIS DE SADE Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.
MARQUIS DE SADE Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie. The rude s...
MARQUIS DE CUSTINE For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows;...
MARQUIS DE SADE Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, i...
MARQUIS DE SADE A multitude of little superfluous precautions engender here a population of deputies and sub-officia...
MARQUIS DE CUSTINE Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing. Pregnancies are damaging to health, spo...
MARQUIS DE SADE Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, ...
MARQUIS DE SADE The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.
MARQUIS DE SADE Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyran...
MARQUIS DE SADE One promises much, to avoid giving little.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES Religions are the cradles of despotism.
MARQUIS DE SADE To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simp...
MARQUIS DE SADE When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied wit...
MARQUIS DE SADE In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural insp...
MARQUIS DE SADE She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose ...
MARQUIS DE SADE Action makes more fortune than caution
VAUVENARGUES, MARQUIS DE To possess taste, one must have some soul.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical ...
MARQUIS DE CUSTINE It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality. Its sovereign law is subord...
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with ...
MARQUIS DE SADE Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need o...
MARQUIS DE SADE The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; ...
MARQUIS DE SADE 'Sex' is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be sat...
MARQUIS DE SADE My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is ...
MARQUIS DE SADE Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
MARQUIS DE SADE But a wife..."
"...is an individual who can be interesting when one makes use of her, but one m...
MARQUIS DE SADE Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman i...
MARQUIS DE SADE Women are not made for one single man; 'tis for men at large Nature created them.
MARQUIS DE SADE Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of th...
MARQUIS DE SADE Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES Few maxims are true in every respect
VAUVENARGUES, MARQUIS DE Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
MARQUIS DE CONDORCET Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her ...
MARQUIS DE SADE Ah, Eug?nie, have done with virtues! Among the sacrifices that can be made to those counterfeit divi...
MARQUIS DE SADE Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
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...
MARQUIS DE SADE A multitude of little superfluous precautions engender here a population of deputies and sub-officia...
MARQUIS DE CUSTINE I hope to see the bringing together of all the best educated people of the earth into a worldwide Co...
MARQUIS DE CONDORCET Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.
MARQUIS DE SADE A new principle is an inexhaustible source of new views
VAUVENARGUES MARQUIS DE Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
MARQUIS DE SADE Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as po...
MARQUIS DE SADE 'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abol...
MARQUIS DE SADE Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.
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.
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 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.
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