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.
MARQUIS DE SADEIn an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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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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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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All men are born free, all have equal rights: never should we lose sight of those principles; according to which never may there be granted to one sex the legitimate right to lay monopolizing hands upon the other, and never may one of the sexes, or classes, arbitrarily possess the other.
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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.
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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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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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Don’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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What do I see in the God of that infamous sect if not an inconsistent and barbarous being, today the creator of a world of destruction he repents of tomorrow.
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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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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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