Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?
MARQUIS DE SADELet not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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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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Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of vice!
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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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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The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
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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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What 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.
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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.
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Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
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