For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
MARQUIS DE SADEThe most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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The infant breaks his toy, bites his nurse’s breast, strangles his canary long before he is able to reason; cruelty is stamped in animals, in whom, as I think I have said, Nature’s laws are more emphatically to be read than in ourselves; cruelty exists amongst savages.
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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.
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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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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.
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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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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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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
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Return to the nothingness from which the mad hope and ridiculous fright of men dared call you forth to their misfortune. You only appeared as a torment for the human race.
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It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.
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Thread of their days without pity, and in the midst of life, without ever concerning themselves with this fatal moment, living as though they were to exist for ever, they disappear into the obscure cloud of immortality, uncertain of the fate which lies in store for them.
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The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.
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