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"If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired. The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism." Marquis de Sade 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain; its impressions are unmistakable." Marquis de Sade 4.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be." Marquis de Sade 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues." Rene Descartes 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall." Leonardo DiCaprio 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely." Charles Dickens 3.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"'At this festive season of the year, Mr Scrooge,' said the gentleman, taking up a pen, 'it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. ... We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices.'" Charles Dickens 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"There is no more vulnerable human combination than an undergraduate." John Sloan Dickey 3.3333 average rating Rate this Quote
"In a progressive country change is constant, change is inevitable." Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli 3.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Every great decision creates ripples--like a huge boulder dropped in a lake. The ripples merge, rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences." Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli 4.8571 average rating Rate this Quote
"It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being." Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli Rate this Quote
"The greatest wealth consisteth in being charitable, And the greatest happiness in having tranquility of mind. Experience is the most beautiful adornment; And the best comrade is one that hath no desire." Tibetan Doctrine 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea." Lou Dorfsman 4.8750 average rating Rate this Quote
"Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth." Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth." Frederick Douglass 1.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Mediocrity does not see higher than itself. But talent instantly recognizes the genius." Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth." Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you." Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 4.9167 average rating Rate this Quote
"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius." Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 4.7273 average rating Rate this Quote
"Number is the Word but is not utterance; it is wave and light, though no one sees it; it is rhythm and music, though no one hears it. Its variations are limitless and yet it is immutable. Each form of life is a particular reverberation of Number." Maurice Druon 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
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