Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . .
MARQUIS DE SADEWolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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The rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
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Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
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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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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it’s the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband’s mood.
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And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
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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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Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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