#na

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. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#equilibrium #general #her #impulse #inspires

Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#cannot #fact #felicity #fortunate #his

Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#asks #body #church #nature #reverenced

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#consequence #crimes #her #means #most

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#far less #fiction #imagination #less #than

God willing, the occupation forces will be driven out as happened in Vietnam. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#forces #god #happened #occupation #out

I did three tours in Vietnam. I guess a total of about almost two years. ↗

— Morley Safer

#almost #did #guess #i #three

I think it has sullied his presidency. As brilliant a politician as Bill Clinton is, as magnetic a personality as he can be, there is one little screw loose somewhere. ↗

— Morley Safer

#bill clinton #brilliant #clinton #his #i

What does it say about us that people who are considered defective are instinctively caring and compassionate? ↗

— Morley Safer

#caring #compassionate #considered #defective #does

But when I'm losing a few matches, suddenly 'It's his fault', 'He doesn't want to practice', 'He doesn't need it', 'He doesn't care'. And when everything goes well, there are people coming behind the stone, saying, 'Oh, my God, he's back finally, and I was there to help him out'. ↗

— Marat Safin

#behind #care #coming #everything #fault