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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!

Marquis de Sade

One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Blush Dangerous Grown Old One Shame
One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Desire Greater More Object One Pleasure Surrender Violence
Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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Everything Happy Isdiscrimately Let Ourselves Passion Suggest
What do I see there but a frail being forever unable to bring man to heel and force him to bend a knee. This creature, although emanated from him, dominates him, knows how to offend him and thereby merit torments eternally! What a weak fellow, this God!
MARQUIS DE SADE

Bend Creature Dominate Eternity Fellow Hel Man See Torment Unable Weak
For my system, which you disapprove of is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness -it means more to me than my life itself.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Comfort Disapprove Greatest Happiness Life More Source System
Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Appreciate Choice Happiness Individual Make Nor One Organization Other Pursuant Virtue
And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
MARQUIS DE SADE

Behaviour Boy Good Idea Little Naughty Spank
Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man’s imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Attain Caprice Fact Felicity Heed Human Imagination Lie Lose Sight Think
Now I cannot bring myself to fear a God who is either spiteful or weak. I defy Him without fear and care not a fig for his thunderbolts.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Defym Care Either Fear Fig God Now Spiteful Thunderbolt
Thread of their days without pity, and in the midst of life, without ever concerning themselves with this fatal moment, living as though they were to exist for ever, they disappear into the obscure cloud of immortality, uncertain of the fate which lies in store for them.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Concern Day Fatal Life Living Midst Moment Pity Themselves Thread Through
Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Another Carry Crime Destroy Dread Evacuating Infanticide Kind Medicine Mistress Womb
Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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Ask Body Church Nature Reverence
When I was not the cause of some chaos, a chaos of such proportions that it would provoke a general corruption or a distubance so formal that even after my death its effects would still be felt.
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Chaos Corruption Disturbance Effect Felt General Moment Probation Single Some
Love Is Stronger Than Pride
MARQUIS DE SADE

Love Pride Stronger
Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime?
MARQUIS DE SADE

Country Crime Criminal Essential Horror Murder Necessary Republican State Tolerate
My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!
MARQUIS DE SADE

Approve Care Manner Support Think

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