The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught. - Marquis de Vauvenargues
Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun. - Don Marquis
True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate. - Marquis De Lafayette
When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties. - Marquis De Lafayette
Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice. - Marquis de Sade
fire is beautifuland we know that if we gettoo close it will kill usbut what does that matterit is better to be happy for a momentand be burned up with beautythan to live a long timeand be bored all the while - Don Marquis
An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it. - Don Marquis
A pessimist is a person who has to listen to too many optimists. - Don Marquis
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness. - Don Marquis
It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality. Its sovereign law is subordination and dependence. - Marquis de Vauvenargues
Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency? - Marquis de Sade
Self-interest lies behind all that men do, forming the important motive for all their actions; this rule has never deceived me - Marquis de Sade
Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated. - Marquis de Sade
Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool. - Marquis de Sade
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another. - Marquis de Condorcet
If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy. - Marquis De Lafayette
Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes. - Don Marquis
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice. - Marquis de la Grange
Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself. - Marquis de Vauvenargues
Publishing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. - Don Marquis
The distance doesn't matter; it is only the first step that is difficult. - Mari de Vichy-Chamrond Marquise du Deffand
Give me the positions and velocities of all the particles in the universe, and I will predict the future. - Marquis Pierre Simon de Laplace
There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author. - Marquis de Sade
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?' - Don Marquis
An optimist is a man who has never had much experience. - Don Marquis
they thought they were heroes when they were only cinders in the eye of humanity too many creatures both insects and humans estimate their own value by the amount of irritation they are able to cause greater personalities than themselves - Don Marquis
I want to be the victim of his errors. - Marquis de Sade
Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country. - Marquis De Lafayette
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. - Don Marquis
The happiness of America is intimately connected with the happiness of all mankind; she is destined to become the safe and venerable asylum of virtue, of honesty, of tolerance, and quality and of peaceful liberty. - Marquis De Lafayette
Fuck! Is one expected to be a gentleman when one is stiff? - Marquis de Sade
If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity marry, and perpetuate his kind. - Don Marquis
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die. - Marquis de Vauvenargues
There's a lot going on in Marquis' book, as the author smartly builds off a solid premise...A fresh concept and protagonist that breathe life into a conventional but exciting actioner."-- - Kirkus Reviews
When I started writingI was a sick teenagedfuck inside who partlythought I was the newMarquis de Sade, a bodydoomed to communicatewith Satan who was us-ing my sickness as hishome away from home,and there’s your proof. - Dennis Cooper
If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves. - Don Marquis
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose? - Don Marquis
Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. - Don Marquis
When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected. - Marquis de Vauvenargues
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
A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimist. - Don Marquis
Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control. - Don Marquis
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't? - Don Marquis
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. - Don Marquis
If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate his kind. - Don Marquis
To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell. - Marquis de Sade
In order to know virtue, we must acquaint ourselves with vice. Only then can we know the true measure of a man. - Marquis de Sade
Strength lies not in defence but in attack. - Marquis de Acerba
...that tender compunction of the honest-minded, so different from the hateful intoxication of criminals... - Marquis de Sade