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I experience for the American officers and soldiers that friendship which arises from having shared with them for a length of time dangers, sufferings, and both good and evil fortune.


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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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