Don’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
MARQUIS DE SADEIf it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?
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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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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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
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Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates.
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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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For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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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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There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
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Your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and afflicting punishments.
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Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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