The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.
MARQUIS DE SADEThere is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
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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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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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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Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
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We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.
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Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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So much nearer to Nature than civilized men are; absurd then to maintain cruelty is a consequence of depravity. . . .
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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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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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