The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
MARQUIS DE SADEA poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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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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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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We devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.
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Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.
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My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being,the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to.
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.
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You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit othere is a fool.
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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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Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime?
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No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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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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Cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.
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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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