Even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.
MARQUIS DE SADEAll universal moral principles are idle fancies.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that his rewards are held over for another life, for is it not true as written in Holy Scripture that the Lord chastenenth only the righteous! And after all, is not virtue it’s own reward?
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The most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution.
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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What do I see there but a frail being forever unable to bring man to heel and force him to bend a knee. This creature, although emanated from him, dominates him, knows how to offend him and thereby merit torments eternally! What a weak fellow, this God!
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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Were he supreme, were he mighty, were he just, were he good, this God you tell me about, would it be through enigmas and buffooneries he would wish to teach me to serve and know him?
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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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The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.
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Nothing we can do outrages Nature directly. Our acts of destruction give her new vigour and feed her energy, but none of our wreckings can weaken her power.
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So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
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