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.
MARQUIS DE SADEFor my system, which you disapprove of is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness -it means more to me than my life itself.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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For my system, which you disapprove of is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness -it means more to me than my life itself.
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Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . .
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Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
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The most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution.
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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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And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
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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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Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest.
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Now I cannot bring myself to fear a God who is either spiteful or weak. I defy Him without fear and care not a fig for his thunderbolts.
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I think that if there were a God, there would be less evil on this earth. I believe that if evil exists here below, then either it was willed by God or it was beyond His powers to prevent it.
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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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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will.
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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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Evil is… a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world
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What do I see there but a frail being forever unable to bring man to heel and force him to bend a knee. This creature, although emanated from him, dominates him, knows how to offend him and thereby merit torments eternally! What a weak fellow, this God!
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Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime?
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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Don’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that his rewards are held over for another life, for is it not true as written in Holy Scripture that the Lord chastenenth only the righteous! And after all, is not virtue it’s own reward?
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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