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.
MARQUIS DE SADEThe majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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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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The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
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Can we become other than what we are?
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At all times, in every century, every age, there has been such a connection between despotism and religion that it is infinitely apparent and demonstrated a thousand times over, that in destroying one, the other must be undermined.
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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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Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
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Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.
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Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I’d say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel.
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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.
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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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It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.
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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
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