"Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination."
-Marquis de Sade
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"To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.“
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"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."
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"What is more immoral than war?"
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"Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction."
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"The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success."
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"Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust."
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"The most positive men are the most credulous."
-Alexander Pope
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-Walter Lippmann
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"No man has any natural authority over his fellow men."
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them."
-Georg C. Lichtenberg
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"Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions and take that of laborers Unions."
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"Strong women only marry weak men."
-Bette Davis
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