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The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to achieve the designs it has for man.
Marquis de Sade
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Marquis de Sade
Age: 74 †
Born: 1740
Born: June 2
Died: 1814
Died: December 2
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Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
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Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
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One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.
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They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.
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Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
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