"Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination."
-Marquis de Sade
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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.“
-Marquis de Sade
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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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"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."
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"I have prayed to God that he give me the strength to survive each day and to face those times in my life that will be extremely painful. I have put my total faith in God, and he will take care of me."
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"I saw him... at peace in my armchair. I remember wishing he could stay in peace like that forever. I had a feeling of easing his burden with my strength."
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"The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it."
-Adolf Hitler
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"Strength lies not in defence but in attack."
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"The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people."
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"Strength is a matter of the made-up mind."
-John Beecher
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