Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
MARQUIS DE SADEIt requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.
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She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.
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The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
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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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We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.
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It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates.
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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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If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that his rewards are held over for another life, for is it not true as written in Holy Scripture that the Lord chastenenth only the righteous! And after all, is not virtue it’s own reward?
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Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
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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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Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it’s the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband’s mood.
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Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a 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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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will.
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