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  • Il y a dans tout homme, a'   toute heure, deux postulations simultane  es, l'une vers Dieu, l'autre vers Satan. Every man at every moment has two simultaneous tendencies: one toward God, the other toward Satan.

    - Charles Baudelaire
      Mon coeur mis a'   nu, pt.19.

  • And the L said unto Satan,Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the L, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDORDJob1:7.

  • Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. Then saith Jesus unto him,Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written,Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    St Matthew 4:8^10.

  • But he turned, and said unto Peter,Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    St Matthew16:23.

  • And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    St Luke10:18.

  • And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    Corinthians12:7.

  • And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought againstthe dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    Revelation12:7^9.

  • Oh, the diligence of Satan! Oh, the desperateness of man's heart!

    -John Bunyan
      Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners.

  • OThou, whatever title suit thee! Auld Hornie, Satan, Nick, or Clootie.

    - Robert Burns
      'Address to the Deil', stanza1.

  • Many girls have not the advantage I have and I [am] very very glad that satan has not geven me boils and many other Misfortunes.

    - Marjory Fleming
      'Journal 2' in F Sidgwick (ed)  The Complete Marjory Fleming (1934).

  • He looked rather pleasantly like a blond satan.

    - (Samuel) Dashiell Hammett
      Of Sam Spade. The Maltese Falcon,'Spade and  Archer'.

  • Pandemonium, the high capital Of Satan and his peers.

    -John Milton
      Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.1, l.756^7.

  • Satan exalted sat, by merit raised To that bad eminence; and from despair Thus high uplifted beyond hope.

    -John Milton
      Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.2, l.5^7.

  • Meanwhile the Adversary of God and man, Satan with thoughts inflamed of highest design, Puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of hell Explores his solitary flight.

    -John Milton
      Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.2, l.629^32.

  • Solitude is the playfield of Satan.

    -Vladimir Nabokov
      Pale Fire,'Commentary'.

  • In ten thousand years the Sierras Will be dryand dead, home of the scorpion. Ice-scratched slabs and bent trees. No paradise, no fall, Only the weathering land The wheeling sky, Man, with his Satan Scouring the chaos of the mind. Oh Hell!

    - Gary Sherman Snyder
      Riprap,'Milton By Firelight (Piute Creek, August1955)'.

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