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.
MARQUIS DE SADEWhen I was not the cause of some chaos, a chaos of such proportions that it would provoke a general corruption or a distubance so formal that even after my death its effects would still be felt.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the possession of slaves.
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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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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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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 primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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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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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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Return to the nothingness from which the mad hope and ridiculous fright of men dared call you forth to their misfortune. You only appeared as a torment for the human race.
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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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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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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of vice!
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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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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