So much nearer to Nature than civilized men are; absurd then to maintain cruelty is a consequence of depravity. . . .
MARQUIS DE SADEI want to be the victim of his errors.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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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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Now I cannot bring myself to fear a God who is either spiteful or weak. I defy Him without fear and care not a fig for his thunderbolts.
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Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
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Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
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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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The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.
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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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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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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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Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
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Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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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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