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.
MARQUIS DE SADELet not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?
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Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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There you have Nature, there you have her intentions, there you have her scheme: a perpetual action and reaction, a host of vices, a host of virtues, in one word, a perfect equilibrium resulting from the equality of good and evil on earth.
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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
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Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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What do I see in the God of that infamous sect if not an inconsistent and barbarous being, today the creator of a world of destruction he repents of tomorrow.
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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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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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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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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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