Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
MARQUIS DE SADEYour service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and afflicting punishments.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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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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Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency?
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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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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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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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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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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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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it’s the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband’s mood.
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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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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
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