Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . .
MARQUIS DE SADEI want to be the victim of his errors.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates.
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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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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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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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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions.
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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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My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I’d not do so.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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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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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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