A Quote by Marquis de Sade

The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.

Marquis de Sade

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Marquis de Sade
French - Writer
June 2, 1740 - December 2, 1814

A coxcomb is one whom simpletons believe to be a man of merit.

Jean de la Bruyere

A fool is one whom simpletons believe to be a man on merit. [Fr., Un fat celui que les sots croient un homme de merite.]

Jean de la Bruyere

It's a foolish culture that entrusts its food supply to simpletons.

Joel Salatin

In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.

Tennessee Williams

He was endowed with the extraordinary powers of endurance characteristic of madmen and simpletons.

Vasily Grossman

The newspaper that obstructs the law on a trivial pretext, for money's sake, is a dangerous enemy to the public weal. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse.

Mark Twain

The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

So many cartoons are about real fun, happy-go-lucky simpletons.

Raphael Bob-Waksberg

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

Honore de Balzac

There are a great many simpletons who know themselves to be so, and who make a very cunning use of their own simplicity.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

You've a right to believe that we're governed by Nature and the hidden Force within her. You can think that the gods, including my Melitele, are merely a personification of this power invented for simpletons so they can understand it better, accept its existence. According to you, that power is blind. But for me, Geralt, faith allows you to expect what my goddess personifies from nature: order, law, goodness. And hope.

Andrzej Sapkowski

My parents were simpletons. Everyday living was a big thing in that small village where I was born. They had no clue about music.

Ilaiyaraaja

Our Founders were not naive simpletons. They understood that human freedom is a fragile thing, that 'eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.'

Tom Tancredo

How wrong are those simpletons, of whom the world is full, who look more at... color than at the figures which show spirit and movement.

Michelangelo

Indeed it is generally the case that men are readier to call rogues clever than simpletons honest, and are ashamed of being the second as they are proud of being the first.

Thucydides

Newfoundlanders, what are we? We're slobbering idiots, slack-jawed simpletons, rustic fish billies living in Dogpatch-on-the-rocks, lower than lower Slobovians, the laughing stock and 'white trash' of Canada.

Ray Guy

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