Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
MARQUIS DE SADETo judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
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The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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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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Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
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The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.
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Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
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We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.
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If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired.
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Oh, Satan! one and unique God of my soul, inspire thou in me something yet more, present further perversions to my smoking heart, and then shalt thou see how I shall plunge myself into them 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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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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Hence, I must recommend to you prompt exactness, submissiveness, and total self-abnegation that you be enabled to heed naught but our desires; let them be your laws, fly to do their bidding, anticipate them, cause them to be born.
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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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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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What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.
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What is more immoral than war?
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When 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.
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Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace
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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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Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong.
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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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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Now I cannot bring myself to fear a God who is either spiteful or weak. I defy Him without fear and care not a fig for his thunderbolts.
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