The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
MARQUIS DE SADEConscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
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We devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.
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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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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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Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.
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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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The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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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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Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.
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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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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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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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