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Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed? ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#means #nation #nourished #strengthened #wars

Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#connections #faith #immediate #must #subsist

There's a lot of things in life that we don't know why they're coming exactly at this moment. ↗

— Marat Safin

#exactly #know #life #lot #moment

I am a part of the political process whether the multinational forces are present or not. Politics is serving the people, not chairs and positions. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#chairs #forces #i #i am #multinational

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. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#closely #earned #i #imitate #imitating

Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#commands #condemning #day #got #know

There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#certain #deceive #dependable #experience #feign

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#bred #competition #desire #doubt #foremost

One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#dangerous #grown #never #old #shame

She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#already #being #compared #delectable #different