Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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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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Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
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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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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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What is more immoral than war?
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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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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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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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What I should like to find is a crime the effects of which would be perpetual, even when I myself do not act, so that there would not be a single moment of my life even when I were asleep.
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Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
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Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?
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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.
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