The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
MARQUIS DE SADEOne is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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What is more immoral than war?
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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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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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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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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!
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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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I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted,
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What I should like to find is a crime the effects of which would be perpetual, even when I myself do not act, so that there would not be a single moment of my life even when I were asleep.
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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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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The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions.
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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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It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates.
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Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.
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