Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
MARQUIS DE SADEAnd if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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All men are born free, all have equal rights: never should we lose sight of those principles; according to which never may there be granted to one sex the legitimate right to lay monopolizing hands upon the other, and never may one of the sexes, or classes, arbitrarily possess the other.
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
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Oh, Satan! one and unique God of my soul, inspire thou in me something yet more, present further perversions to my smoking heart, and then shalt thou see how I shall plunge myself into them all!
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Beauty is a simple thing; ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.
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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.
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There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you…every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.
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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
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Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
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I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.
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According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another.
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