Religions are the cradles of despotism.
MARQUIS DE SADELet not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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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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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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Evil is… a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world
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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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Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.
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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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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
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What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.
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Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . .
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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Oh, Satan! one and unique God of my soul, inspire thou in me something yet more, present further perversions to my smoking heart, and then shalt thou see how I shall plunge myself into them all!
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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.
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