Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
MARQUIS DE SADEGet 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.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
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My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I’d not do so.
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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you…every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.
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My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being,the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to.
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Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.
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Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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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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Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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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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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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