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.
MARQUIS DE SADEHappiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the possession of slaves.
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Even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.
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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
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Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
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To 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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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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There you have Nature, there you have her intentions, there you have her scheme: a perpetual action and reaction, a host of vices, a host of virtues, in one word, a perfect equilibrium resulting from the equality of good and evil on earth.
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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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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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That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you…every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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