The infant breaks his toy, bites his nurse’s breast, strangles his canary long before he is able to reason; cruelty is stamped in animals, in whom, as I think I have said, Nature’s laws are more emphatically to be read than in ourselves; cruelty exists amongst savages.
MARQUIS DE SADEI’ve already told you: the only way to a woman’s heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool.
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Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.
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One must feel sorry for those who have strange tastes, but never insult them. Their wrong is Nature’s too; they are no more responsible for having come into the world with tendencies unlike ours than are we for being born bandy-legged or well-proportioned.
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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.
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The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.
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Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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There you have Nature, there you have her intentions, there you have her scheme: a perpetual action and reaction, a host of vices, a host of virtues, in one word, a perfect equilibrium resulting from the equality of good and evil on earth.
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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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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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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