Don’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
MARQUIS DE SADENothing we can do outrages Nature directly. Our acts of destruction give her new vigour and feed her energy, but none of our wreckings can weaken her power.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.
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Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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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.
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For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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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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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.
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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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