Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.
MARQUIS DE SADENothing we can do outrages Nature directly. Our acts of destruction give her new vigour and feed her energy, but none of our wreckings can weaken her power.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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I’ve already told you: the only way to a woman’s heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
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Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
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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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Even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.
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Can we become other than what we are?
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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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God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
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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 does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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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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Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong.
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For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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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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