It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
MARQUIS DE SADEIt is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
MARQUIS DE SADEIs it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
MARQUIS DE SADEBetween understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
MARQUIS DE SADEAre 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 SADEWhat I should like to find is a crime the effects of which would be perpetual, even when I myself do not act, so that there would not be a single moment of my life even when I were asleep.
MARQUIS DE SADEThe degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.
MARQUIS DE SADEThe 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 SADEDeep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
MARQUIS DE SADEWe devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.
MARQUIS DE SADEIf 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 SADESocial order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
MARQUIS DE SADELet not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
MARQUIS DE SADEWhat do I see in the God of that infamous sect if not an inconsistent and barbarous being, today the creator of a world of destruction he repents of tomorrow.
MARQUIS DE SADEHow delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
MARQUIS DE SADEBeauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace
MARQUIS DE SADEFor the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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