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«For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once his life is over, there's an end to it: his annihilation is final and entire, of him nothing survives.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
annihilation, entire, fellows, final, folly, mortal, mortal man, Mortal Men, spite, survives, wickedness
«Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
closely, earned, imitate, imitating, misfortunes, resemble, sensitive, vices
«Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
crime, destroying, do no, dread, evacuate, evacuating, Feel the Need, harm, imaginary, imaginary being, infanticide, medicines, mistress, mistresses, Out of the Womb, womb
«Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
All My, chimerical, egoism, enslaves, enslaving, fainthearted, fellow, formed, for all, get it, humanness, once and for all, unknown, weakness
«Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
a hundred, a hundred times, correct, good sense, gratuitous, guilty, impose, infamies, infamy, inflicted, inflicting, nay, nays, not guilty, piece, punishment, rebellion, rouse, rouses, rousing, The Victim, victim
«The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal too; that which directs corrupt mankind must be corrupt itself; and it will never be by means of virtue, virtue being inert and passive, that you will maintain control over vice, which is ever active: the governor must be more energetic than the governed.»
«Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
accordance, equilibrium, general, impulse, inspires, Laws, maintenance, vices, virtues
«One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.»
«The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
defects, lovable, resound, resounded, resounding, resounds
«Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withstand the gainsaying passions, never do they resist bare necessity.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
bare, bared, barer, bares, barest, baring, baseless, feeble, feebler, feeblest, gainsay, gainsaying, humane, improper, incredibly, mad, necessity, passions, resist, sentiments, withstand, withstanding, withstood
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