The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
MARQUIS DE SADEAnd if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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What do I see there but a frail being forever unable to bring man to heel and force him to bend a knee. This creature, although emanated from him, dominates him, knows how to offend him and thereby merit torments eternally! What a weak fellow, this God!
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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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Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.
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That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you…every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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