All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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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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One must feel sorry for those who have strange tastes, but never insult them. Their wrong is Nature’s too; they are no more responsible for having come into the world with tendencies unlike ours than are we for being born bandy-legged or well-proportioned.
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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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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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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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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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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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Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted,
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I think that if there were a God, there would be less evil on this earth. I believe that if evil exists here below, then either it was willed by God or it was beyond His powers to prevent it.
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Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool.
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Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy!
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