My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
MARQUIS DE SADELycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that his rewards are held over for another life, for is it not true as written in Holy Scripture that the Lord chastenenth only the righteous! And after all, is not virtue it’s own reward?
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It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
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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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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man’s imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices.
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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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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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Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
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I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted,
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Were he supreme, were he mighty, were he just, were he good, this God you tell me about, would it be through enigmas and buffooneries he would wish to teach me to serve and know him?
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The debility to which Nature condemned women incontestably proves that her design is for man, who then more than ever enjoys his strength, to exercise it in all the violent forms that suit him best, by means of tortures, if he be so inclined, or worse.
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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