Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong.
MARQUIS DE SADEWhat crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.
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Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.
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Can we become other than what we are?
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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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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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Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
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