We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.
MARQUIS DE SADEFor the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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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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The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
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The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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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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Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
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If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.
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There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
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The rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
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So much nearer to Nature than civilized men are; absurd then to maintain cruelty is a consequence of depravity. . . .
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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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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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Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.
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Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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