In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
MARQUIS DE SADELet not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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The imagination is the spur of delights… all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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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?
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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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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired.
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
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Cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.
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I’ve already told you: the only way to a woman’s heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
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Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
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So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
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Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?
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