If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that his rewards are held over for another life, for is it not true as written in Holy Scripture that the Lord chastenenth only the righteous! And after all, is not virtue it’s own reward?
MARQUIS DE SADEA poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit othere is a fool.
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What is more immoral than war?
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So much nearer to Nature than civilized men are; absurd then to maintain cruelty is a consequence of depravity. . . .
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Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.
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The debility to which Nature condemned women incontestably proves that her design is for man, who then more than ever enjoys his strength, to exercise it in all the violent forms that suit him best, by means of tortures, if he be so inclined, or worse.
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The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong.
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