A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
MARQUIS DE SADEFear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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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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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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Cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.
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The imagination is the spur of delights… all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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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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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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Evil is… a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world
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Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.
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I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.
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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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Your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and afflicting punishments.
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The rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
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Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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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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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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Beauty is a simple thing; ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.
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Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I’d say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel.
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The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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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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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
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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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